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Is working at a startup really a good idea?
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Date: September 8, 2025
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thats a really f'ing good video. you cannot cut and make this video even a minute shorter.
I work for a fully remote company that was founded 6 years ago and has grown to $3B in valuation. Sorry, Theo, you are dead wrong about "can't do a startup remote". You sure as hell can!!
@theo you ever consider doing a video on Lifestyle businesses? I've made it my whole life and have done really good, like good enough to fund all my hobbies, put 3 kids in private school, have a stay at home wife, travel all the time, etc. I see a lot of young Devs who think all the jobs are gone and most want that SF lifestyle and the big DREAM but I work with a lot of mid-size companies and they are still all hiring for good devs and the switch to AI hasn't really hit the landscape.
Jamon of Infinite Red is a good example of this, building a really solid company that helps businesses with REact. I just keep thinking about the need to help these young guys not all be blackpilled doomers about the tech landscape.
chill now theo
32:24 i think you need a family not a team
Good engineers get way more work done remote than in office. If your engineers are struggling to work remote and not communicating, they are poor engineers.
Im CTO at a startup. 60k, 0.9% equity. I work remotely.
The remote thing is SO real. Man it's gruesome. I hate my life half of the time.
It's enough to live a decent life where I am physically. But men.
So if you get shares like (49 mins), they pay you cash in the bank on those shares each year?
Or you are cashing out as they vest?
1:00:30 about not joining remotely when everyone else is in person is so true
I worked at a company where most engineers who worked on the same products as I did were in other offices, and it was a very weird way of working. You don't really feel part of the group.