Re:Ask HN: Which startups are still “only hiring the best”?
by ironmagma on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:16PM
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I was more asking, what reason is there not to start a company? The OP seems to make the opposite presumption, that if you are any good, you wouldn't want to. Personally I don't see how skill and entrepreneurial spirit are inherently linked, but there is still certainly an incentive to be the founding member of a business.
Re:Ask HN: Which startups are still “only hiring the best”?
by AkashicSeer on Friday January 03, 2020 @08:44PM
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Anyone who is good at what they do can start a business consulting others on how to do what they are good at.
Re:Ask HN: Which startups are still “only hiring the best”?
by ironmagma on Friday January 03, 2020 @10:20PM
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Not necessarily, some perfectly good workers lack the drive to do customer calls, CEO work, marketing, etc. Generally speaking, being self employed is a heck of a lot more work than being in a startup because you must do everything yourself and you will never be able to be truly "off."
That's such a baffling sentence that I don't really know where to start to unpack the assumptions that must have gone into it. If what someone is great at (or wants to do) has nothing to do with starting or running a company, why would they start a company?