Question I get fairly frequently: is it still possible to make money in startups or as a creator on the Internet, or has the opportunity passed or been sewed up by AppAmaGooBookSoft or similar? The answer to this: unambiguously, yes, opportunities are changing but *better.*
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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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The knowledge base and support communities seem much better too.
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