Salinas: Developers launching startups should keep day jobs until product-market fit
Julien Salinas · Why Your Kids Force You to Make Better Decisions · Jul 13, 2021 · at 26:14
Julien Salinas is the founder and CEO of NLP Cloud. He shares advice on bootstrapping startups alongside full-time employment versus quitting prematurely.
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“It's not necessary to quit your job while you are a developer and you launch a project. Sometimes it is, but most of the time, I think you can do great things as a side project and keep your job for a while. And this job is giving you money that you can use for your project. Once you have product market fit and when you feel it's serious, then can think about maybe quitting your job.”
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