FAANG

“Cause like, if you think about like, we're like scratching our heads, trying to find examples of times that like a fan company launched a product that killed a fast growing, successful startup. So like clearly more often than not, like structural advantage isn…”

“In many ways, this is a defensive tactic to warehouse talent. Out of the fear that maybe someone else can use you in a way that can hurt the company.”

“But I think at some point, the more time you spend there, what was once a good positive signal could turn into a negative one. Again, I can't speak for all investors, but at some point you lose the shininess of getting that validation as well as what team you'…”

“If they can keep you spending your entire salary, and if they can keep the money that you haven't vested yet larger than the amount of money that you have in your savings by like two to three X, you never leave.”

“Most people that get most jobs at Fangs, when you talk to them after they have the job, if they're, you know, get a couple of beers in them, they're working on some bullshit ad server. They're working on like one pixel on one corner of one thing. They're worki…”

“If you're a good programmer, if you're a good programmer and you leave and you leave in a nice way, no matter what happens to you can come back. There's actually not that much loss you have to take.”

“A lot of what you learn is how to use the tools of the FAANG, which you don't get to use when you don't work there anymore.”

“If you're fighting the bonus head to head with no plan, bonus wins most of the time.”