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Originally Posted by Raev
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Loramin, only someone who went to college could come up with ideas as stupid as "people don't like to be paid more money" and "good people are not important to the success of a startup"
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Paul already shot that down, so I'll just leave
this here.
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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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This is precisely the reason why startups are appealing in the first place - you don't go work at a startup for a handsome salary, you work at a startup because it provides unique challenges and the opportunity to actually be a part of building something that you take interest in from the ground up instead of just warming a desk from nine until five.
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Don't forget the stock options! But yeah, no one with a brain joins a startup for the salary, because established companies can offer
much better salaries.
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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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Sure, good startup companies include other things; QA, product designers, marketing, team management, etc., but show me a tech startup that doesn't first of all have competent, talented programmers and you'll be showing me a failed tech startup.
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Bad programmers can write terrible code that still works well enough for the company to succeed. That code might not be maintainable/re-usuable/etc. but that doesn't matter because the code doesn't have to be great, it just has to be good enough to realize the business vision.
In contrast, the best coders in the world can't save a bad CEO or a bad product idea. There are thousands of failed Sillicon Valley startups that had great programmers working for them, but that doesn't matter when the CEO is convinced online pet food (advertised by sock puppets) is the wave of the future.