One reason some startups exist: how do you allocate engineers to problems where incumbents either can’t achieve organizational conviction to allocate engineers or couldn’t attract sufficiently productive engineers to matter.
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To which a partial answer is you silo them in a separate company with a culture not inimical to engineering, you compensate them with equity, and you eat a lot of free cultural lunches. (e.g. Revealed preferences mean some people value dress codes at literally billions.)
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Repeatable way to find startup opportunities: look for large organizations with important problems that really need to hire 10 people who know what a for loop is and implement their recommendations but have a deeply felt reason why they can’t do that.
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What would you say is the most effective way to find these opportunities? Internships at those large companies? Consulting? Seems hard to identify these from the outside
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I think you likely perceive this question to be about acquiring knowledge and I perceive my answers to be about acquiring taste.
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With obligatory disclaimer that it might seem vacuous: Be inquisitive about the world, including bits of it people think are boring. Talk to many more people than you would otherwise. Read much more than you would otherwise. Apply fairly pedestrian engineering insights to that.
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