Hays: Passing on Multi-Billion-Dollar Winners Is a Massive Career Mistake
Jordi Hays · The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10) · Mar 11, 2026 · at 4:14
TBPN co-host Jordi Hays discusses why employees frequently underestimate the upside of joining late-stage unicorn tech companies.
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“The biggest mistake that people make is not going with an obvious winner because It's already in the multiple billions, and it just looks like, okay, what, what's the potential upside from here? And that's just been wrong so many times in the last 10 years.”
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