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A comment on Ask HN: Jump from quant finance into tech startup.

Re:Ask HN: Jump from quant finance into tech startup by akg_67 on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @05:07PM (#9030251)
With questions like this, 2015 hype cycle has started to look like 1999 hype cycle.

I will encourage OP to read this Quora thread before considering such a move.

What was Silicon Valley like after the bubble burst in the early 2000s?

http://qr.ae/BgEva

Are you unhappy with your job and the domain you work in and want to make a career switch? Do you want to make this move mainly because tech startup is right now hot and you think you can roll the dice and get rich quick? You may want to read up on what happen to people who made such moves during last hype cycles.

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Re:Ask HN: Jump from quant finance into tech startup by yetanotheracc on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @07:51AM (#9032524)
From the Quora thread: "Then I took a real job for 18 horrible months and banked enough to go independent again.

Those years left a permanent impression on me."

God, have mercy...

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