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Jon over 2 years ago

There's nothing wrong with working for a big company! I hate to rain on the lovefest for startups, but there are a lot things that you learn best by working with other people who have more experience and knowledge than you do. Do you think that working for a Google is a waste of time, or that someone who spent 5 years at Google isn't going to be more capable of starting a great company?

If you look at the most successful startups, like YouTube, the founders didn't start building a company after getting a bachelors degree. They had real world experience to leverage. It's not a coincidence.

Anonymous over 2 years ago

xobni is still a terrible name. perhaps in a big company someone might have pointed that out.

Pageman over 2 years ago

inspirational text on starting a startup!

Anonymous over 2 years ago

matt *is* the big kahuna.

Anonymous over 2 years ago

I think your NASA argument shows a typical trait of the young: arrogance. Maybe, just maybe, your image resolution improvement didn't make that much of a difference in the big scheme of things. Realising that maybe you're not the Big Kahuna only comes with age and experience.

doubledjd over 2 years ago

Great article. I'm enormously supportive of innovation and responsible entrepreneurship. However, effort does not equal effect. And, maybe it is the circles I work in, I've never met a developer/architect/resea rcher/techie that put in only 8 hours..with kids, mortgage or otherwise. The norm in tech is to bust your ass regardless of experience.

Anonymous over 2 years ago

this essay was quite inspirational.

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Anonymous over 2 years ago

just what i needed to read. thank you.

M over 2 years ago

I agree, the American Dream can be a great thing. Good doc, keep posting!!!!

ChrstyG over 2 years ago

Matt, It truly is an exciting time to be an entreprenuer. It seems somewhere I read or heard that up until the industrial revolution and assembly lines more than 70 percent of americans were self employed. I started my business in 1991 while on a leave of absence from my 10 year job with a local bank. I was bored and there was a tax class through HR Block starting up. The week I went back to work after my son was born, with every intention of putting in my resignation, the bank announced it would be selling out to a bigger bank. What timing. I was one step ahead of everyone. My partner is my husband which goes along with your other blog/essay.

jra over 2 years ago

Sure it is a great time to have an entrepreneurial vision that can be fulfilled by a small group of people working together...like web-based companies. However, many ideas require big groups of people to pull together, like NASA or even IBM. I believe that it is the current pathetic (and often hopelessly greedy) state of leadership within such organizations which makes them such a drag. Ultimately society also needs inspired management to make these necessary businesses function...or else todays cool start-up is all too quickly just another out of touch arrogant bureaucracy.

mbrezina over 2 years ago

I'd love to hear what your mom thinks. On what does she need convincing?

Jared over 2 years ago

Is it ok if I send this article to my Mom? She could use some convincing on this point, and this is a good argument.

Trip over 2 years ago

yes it is an exciting time!