Top 5 companies by market cap in 2007:
Petro China, Exxon, GE, China Mobile, Industrian and Commercial Bank of China
Top 5 companies by market cap in 2017:
Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Berkshire
That's a hell of an illusion
Petro China, Exxon, GE, China Mobile, Industrian and Commercial Bank of China
Top 5 companies by market cap in 2017:
Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Berkshire
That's a hell of an illusion
But, as far as I can tell the software industry has contracted into those big 5 tech firms. The siren call of working at a startup and making it is sounding strident.
Knowing what you know now, what startup, if any, would you have joined 5 years ago?
Would you join any startup now?
If you look at my comment history you'll see I've been saying this for a while and I think it'll only get more true with further industry consolidation, which will make it both harder to displace incumbents product-wise, and harder to compete with them salary-wise.