AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea

Re:AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea by tonyedgecombe on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:11AM (#26768770)

I'm not sure it would even make much sense for them to work at a FAANG. Running a small entrepreneurial business is so different from succeeding in a large corporation. In one you need to be a master of everything from marketing through to development, in the other you are going to need to be highly specialised to merit a large income.

My guess is he wouldn't want to work in a FAANG and they wouldn't want to hire him.

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Re:AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea by jackTheMan on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:35AM (#26769909)

I've worked for Amazon and all I had to do is getting permissions from teams and then do some config changes (or similar level programming) in their software.

Needless to say year-by-year I forgot everything I've learned before. My CV might got a boost, but my skillset decreased a lot. Only thing what I've learned is politics and how to push and decorate an empty promo doc.

I was a braindead when I finally got my stocks. So went back to the startup word, where I could thrive. The average lifespan was like 1 year there, most people did not even wait for the stock so basically worked cheap for amazon.

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Re:AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea by sammorrowdrums on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:32AM (#26768894)

Reminds me of this https://mobile.twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

And many other similar stories

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