You should prefer being a founder in 2019 to being in the same position in 2009 or 1999. The larger market, much better ecosystem, existence of mobile, better OSS, etc swamp the impact of year to year availability of capital or increased competition or what have you.
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Now given that you may not have a time machine available and aren’t choosing between those periods but are actually choosing “start now” or “start later” I think it’s a nuanced conversation but in general I’d be in the “bias towards earlier” camp.
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The nuance is mostly about your relative rate of skill/network/etc growth and leverage available at whatever the thing you’re doing right now versus the likely higher-but-different skill growth and very variable leverage available from running something.
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(When Stripe does employee surveys there is a question “So you ever think about leaving?” And my answer is always “I know that this answer will be coded as negative but dispute the basis for that because if I didn’t think of it daily I’d be rubbish at this job.”)
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Is there a current equivalent to being early on the unregulated and growing fb platform?
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The frontier for extracting a lot of human attention really quickly is probably in some social video thing used by Chinese teenagers but I’m old and boring so I wouldn’t know what it is. The frontier for money is probably selling to businesses, as it was back in those days too.
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There are *many* reasons why this is true, but I like
@amix3k's interpretation:https://twitter.com/amix3k/status/1100361449443131392 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Also if you hate Mondays and love Fridays, it’s probably a good indicator that you don’t like your work.
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Hello, you can read it here: Thread by
@patio11: "Question I get fairly frequently: is it still possible to make money in startups or as a creator on the Internet, or has […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1100958479223676928.html … Have a good day.
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