If you truly think you can just throw together a 'janky' job portal and make 10x more you should stay at the FAANG.

First, life isn’t all about money. Although, If you don’t enjoy what you do you, it’s probably best to find something else.

Second, people make things like this all the time (anyone remember the million dollar web page where ads sold by the pixel?) - that doesn’t necessarily mean anything for you or me. It certainly doesn’t mean we should all be endeavoring to create the next PR sensation.

Finally, be careful what you wish for.

It's all about responsibility and ownership.

Pieter is responsible for everything - product, design, sales, marketing, documentation, customer support, etc.

At a job, you do your job and someone else does the other jobs. Less responsibility, less income.

I do recommend starting something like this on the side, and learning all of the skills listed above. In 5 years or less you can have a side project that makes more than your job with only an hour or two a day.

Yeah, right? I feel for some us at FAANG, our current comp is pretty hard to leave, but at least for me, the hardest point is to figure out something that people would pay for and that's not too hard to build alone. I feel like I'm living in a bubble with very little idea what non-tech people need. Is sad.

Why bust my ass digging ditches when i can make 300-500k as a FAANG dev and retire in a couple years? You FAANG guys have it better than 99% of jobs out there.

Wishing is a goal without clarity, goals are plans without preparation

Literally go for it

You can try building similar sites as much as you want, you won't get to that level. It's about timing, marketing, etc not just building something and done.

Maybe Pieter can chime in, but I don't think he's necessarily making 10x more than a FAANG engineer :)

it's a lot less about building and much more about marketing.