Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith

Re:Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith by liontwist on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @10:38AM (#42781279)

That’s a good point. Also the engineer personality tends to be extremely risk averse.

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Re:Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith by kridsdale1 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:35PM (#42782900)

Thank goodness.

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Re:Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith by swiftcoder on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @04:04PM (#42785175)

I'm not sure I agree with that - good engineers should be experts at managing risk. True risk aversion is an impediment in most fields that engineers are called to solve problems in.

That said, we're also pretty analytical, and when one could warm a seat in FAANG for ~$400k/year, even many successful startups weren't outperforming that TC.

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Re:Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith by liontwist on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:25AM (#42793780)

People generally don’t look at risk for work projects than same as risk to their personal life.

All I’m saying is engineers tend to like certainty and predictability in their personal life.

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