Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre...
by mediaman on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:59PM
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It's an interesting choice.
Which do you prefer?
I'd prefer having an impact on the company versus an impact on a large number of users, because I would experience the impact on the company every day, but at the big company, the feeling of satisfaction from running into random people who have used what I made would still be somewhat infrequent.
Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre...
by achow on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:20PM
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> ..but at the big company, the feeling of satisfaction from running into random people who have used what I made would still be somewhat infrequent.
Online forums, discussion groups etc. can makes them very frequent, global, profound and in many cases very visible to your friends & families - who otherwise would not know what you are working at the small startup.
Now that I'm at a startup, I'm making a huge impact on the startup, but it's having very little impact on the outside world and the industry. I guess the hope is that one day the startup will have impact on the world, but very few ever do.