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>If you follow that timeline, there would be plenty of people who were millionaires and on their second or third startup board before reaching "senior".

What does being a successful entrepreneur have to do with being a senior engineer?

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Well indeed. If you can write an app well enough to earn a million dollars, what use do you have for other people's opinion of your seniority?

I guess, although the arrow of time moving as it does I probably wouldn't want Jerry Yang developing my web app despite the great success with the last one he made.

Senior implies quality, making money off of software often doesn't require quality.

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