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With compensation like that, I have to reconsider my drive to be an entrepreneur. If you can make a million bucks working for someone else, why work for yourself?

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Statistically if you can get into a tier 1 company you’ll be better off. You get 10-20 years at $200-$400k by default, so $2-8 million. You have to weigh that against the exit success chance and size of a 5-10 year (as typical) startup run to an exit.

It’s not all about money of course, and if you can run your own place you can probably get into into a tier 1 tech company.

I worry if I'm missing out on the opportunity to get into a Tier-1 company while I'm busy going on my own. The chance of a $5-10M exit is slimmer than the chance of getting into a Tier-1 company.

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