Fang
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
Acquired 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Neon Show 
TBPN
6 statements about Fang, every show
Masad: Generalist experience decays exponentially as a startup's headcount grows
“Join startups as early as possible. Like, obviously, you can think of it as Sort of exponentially decaying curve or like being the first, being the founder, you get the most journalist experience being the, you know, first employee. And then by the time you ge…”
Y Combinator's Requests for Startups catalyzes Big Tech employees to leave
“The one positive, the positive about the YC requests for startups is If you're working at a FANG, and you see that, and you're like, oh, that's interesting, and then you, that catalyze you, catalyzes you into starting a company, and then you start that company…”
Taggar: Working at a startup is the best founder preparation
“I think the best environment for this is working at a startup. You both get to see how a startup works from the inside, and your colleagues will be less risk averse than the average FANG employee.”
Bhat: BITS Pilani graduates earned $6K compared to US FAANG's $60K
“Average salary coming out of Bits Pilani at that point was 6000 dollars. Per annum. An average FANG entry level job was 60,000 dollars in the US, so naturally all our gold medalists left”
Seibel: Technical founders grossly misunderstand value of FAANG jobs
“Technical founders often misunderstand the value they can get out of Fang. And misunderstand is an understatement. They grossly misunderstand what value they can extract from a Fang job and what value they can't extract.”