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Onne important point of startups that pay less than established companies is that it is the best way to get into the industry by outsiders. Sure, if you can choose a FAANG or similarly sized company, startups are not a great bet at all.

But FAANG big as they are are a small fraction of the action.

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This is a huge one, which won’t work in the best startups, but is a great strategy for someone trying to break in —- leverage a position at a cool tech, bad market fit, middling or even failing startup.

When my Mountain View startup disbanded, most of the team dispersed into Google, Facebook, Salesforce, and other large soon-to-IPO companies. Almost everyone ended up in a better place, and many of us would’ve had a hard time doing so before we joined.

There's also the geographic restrictions if you want to work at a FAANG

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