Big Tech

6 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 27, 2019 by Cory Doctorow · across every show →

Everything said about Big Tech, oldest first

Nov 27, 2019 bearish
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Doctorow: Legal frameworks create 'kill zones' protecting Big Tech monopolies
“And in the years since we have created these legal tools that allow firms not just to dominate, but to maintain their dominance, not by making better products, but by establishing a kill zone around their products where it becomes so legally fraught to make co…”
Cory Doctorow Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 5:45 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
Nov 1, 2023 positive
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Seibel argues engineers learn much faster at a startup than at Google.
“I think most people don't realize that, like, you can learn at a startup pace or you can learn at a Google pace, and like, a startup is an amazing opportunity to learn. So if you're getting better, faster than your peers who are in big tech, You might be getti…”
Michael Seibel Nov 1, 2023 ▶ 11:15 How To NOT Get Screwed As A Software Engineer · Y Combinator
Nov 1, 2023 negative
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Seibel argues grinding 100-hour weeks in big tech is a bad deal.
“I would argue that if you're the Googler, you're getting a bad deal if you're doing, like, a hundred hour weeks and grinding, and, like, your boss or your boss's boss is getting, like, mega vacations and ten million dollar a year packages and, like, promotions…”
Michael Seibel Nov 1, 2023 ▶ 5:42 How To NOT Get Screwed As A Software Engineer · Y Combinator
Nov 7, 2025
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Paffenholz: Do Not Waste Effort Pitching Candidates Seeking Big Tech Stability
“And you might get signals early on that they really want to be in big tech, and that can be really hard to convince them otherwise, especially if it's like, say, comp package related or stability of job related. It's probably not worth fighting that battle bec…”
David Paffenholz Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 38:45 The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
Nov 7, 2025
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Paffenholz: Candidates Interviewing at Big Tech Lack Clarity on Startups
“Are they also interviewing with a big tech company? If so, that might indicate that they're not quite sure in which direction they want to go yet, and we'll have to circle back to selling on why should they be joining a startup in the first place.”
David Paffenholz Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 4:22 The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
Nov 7, 2025 positive
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Paffenholz: Startups Beat Big Tech by Running Hiring Loops in Under Two Weeks
“Your main advantage is speed throughout the whole process. You can run this process within seven days, 10 days, maybe max two weeks. Big tech or even growth stage companies are going to move much slower than that.”
David Paffenholz Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 25:05 The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
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