(This math is pretty surprising but, yep, contingent on doing YC and making median progress by Demo Day you’d be able to raise approximately the same as my expected lifetime earnings as of graduation in 2004. Which is, as stated, pretty wild.)https://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/1104861189371158528 …
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If I was advising a CS student with approximately my 2004 life plan (“Get a nice stable job at BigCo.”) graduating in 2019 I’d bump up my estimate of their lifetime earnings by approximately 5x to 8x, more if (unlike myself at that age, but plausibly) they get AppAmaGooBookSoft.
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The delta is partially “Recovered from the dotcom bust” but mostly “Oh hey software are the world and starting wages for technologists are now higher than your anticipated career peak compensation in 2004.” (And I suppose generic inflation, a bit.)
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It's wild because it's sort of like you've been handed control over someone's entire life (albeit spread out over multiple employees)
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