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Did you even read the article? People who don't want risk can go to Google and make tons of money. There's nothing wrong with it. This guy is saying if you're working for a startup you shouldn't do it for the money since a much better choice in that case would be to go to Google. I guess no matter how good a piece of advice is, you aren't able to take advantage of it if you're not ready for the advice.

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People who don't want risk can go to Google and make tons of money.

Where's this meme that Google just hires everybody who wants to work there coming from? Google has known-broken interviewing processes for hiring capable people (he says, bitterly, after never having had passed a phone screen with them).

"Google" is being used as a stand-in for $tech_megacorp.

Did you read the article? This isn't about assuming risk for the hope of greater reward, this is about working hard and getting nothing in exchange but 'experience'. That advice is bullshit.

>getting nothing in exchange but 'experience'.

Are you assuming there's no pay involved? I didn't get that from the article; it's not saying take a job for no pay. It's saying it's unreasonable to expect to get paid Google money at a startup.

In exchange for not getting paid what you're worth to Google, you get to touch a lot of different areas and get a lot of experience with a lot of things.

Yeah, like another guy said below, who said they get "nothing" but experience? Also you seem to think "experience" is not worth much (maybe because you lack experience of getting experience?), but if you ask me, I would always take a valuable experience over petty money. My time is worth more than a couple thousand dollars per month

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