Have lately been exploring switching out from Uber to early stage startups. Exploring founding engineer roles / CTO roles with people I know well
The worst of it has been just the fact that our salaries are hard to match (even with Cash + ESOP, no matter what you do)
Like I know you need to be okay with less cash. But I now feel that it’s such a jump down, I wonder if it makes sense.
And then this feeling forever makes me averse to trying out something big, risky, bold.
It’s a catch-22 situation lol
Hey man, feeling the same... tried to reach few folks for founding engineer but they are just unable to match. What's your total experience though?
Let's create something of our own. What say?
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