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Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the struggles of working at FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and how to strategize leaving a big tech job to become a founder at a startup. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - When you should quit? 01:00 - What value can technical founders extract from a FAANG job? 03:21 - Assumptions - Why working at FAANG makes sense? 03:48 - Reality of the job 06:01 - Transferable Skills 08:35 - Path to get funded 10:55 - The retention trap - What's the company trying to do? 15:31 - When to get out? 17:31 - FAANG Optimization 18:56 - Plan at the start
"we all know these people that want to just like tell you their darkest secret which is they wake up every day and they like dream of quitting like they have fantasies of quitting every day those are p..."
"the value they can get out of feng and misunderstand is an understatement they grossly misunderstand what value they can extract from a fang job and what value they can't extract i think mostly becaus..."
"let's start with some of the assumptions that we hear from these potential future founders about why working at fang right out of college or soon thereafter makes sense why it's and and it never it's ..."
"um before a car i start a company i want to get experience working on the hardest technical problems at the largest scale and fang is the only place in the world to do this what do you think dalton th..."
"dalton and this is a little a little more vague like it's going to be easier for me to be successful at my startup i'm going to learn important lessons i can apply to my startup if i work for a while ..."
"well vcs they care right like a vc is good like we all know that google um engineers can just raise a series a can raise five to ten million dollars like with almost nothing right like this is my path..."
"these are a lot of assumptions that future founders have let's talk about on the other side what's the company trying to do right and i think this is something that i hear a lot where the company is t..."
"and you feel like you're getting trapped here dalton like how do you know it's time to get out like how do you know like okay like or even if you see a friend in this situation how do you know it's ti..."
"right like the fang optimization i think there's a couple kind of takeaways here like i think the first one is that like if you're technical and you want to be a founder um and you decide that faying ..."
"have a plan at the start like know what you're trying to accomplish you're trying to get a visa you're trying to save money are you trying to get this on your resume have a plan for what you're trying..."