Re:Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better
by cyberdrunk on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:10AM
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> Once you have saved that amount of money your only going to be a 'few' more years from hitting some version of FIRE.
> You've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and friend group that will be hard to walk away from.
> You've lost skills having worked with some internal tech stack your entire career and don't know how to do anything.
> Skills you learn at your FAANG equivalent job don't transfer over to entrepreneurship its just a different domain.
> You've never actually 'worked hard' and it's just going to seem plain silly to quit your 250k+ job to work all the time when the chances of success are low.
Can confirm all of the above (except lifestyle inflation, I watch that carefully). At this point, it really does make more sense to grind for a few more years, go have a nice FIRE and then maybe work on something on your own just for fun. So, essentially, golden handcuffs all the way.
> You've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and friend group that will be hard to walk away from.
> You've lost skills having worked with some internal tech stack your entire career and don't know how to do anything.
> Skills you learn at your FAANG equivalent job don't transfer over to entrepreneurship its just a different domain.
> You've never actually 'worked hard' and it's just going to seem plain silly to quit your 250k+ job to work all the time when the chances of success are low.
Can confirm all of the above (except lifestyle inflation, I watch that carefully). At this point, it really does make more sense to grind for a few more years, go have a nice FIRE and then maybe work on something on your own just for fun. So, essentially, golden handcuffs all the way.