Is working at a start up stressful?
nah man it's all jeans, flip flops, and ball pits
>carry out the responsibilities that would normally be divided among 3 people
>work for >10 hrs most days
yes
Checking multiple venture endeavors 10 years later is pretty stressful.
I bet its more stressful for some that sued in New York instead of Alabama or Massachusetts, especially when their claims were malicious and bogus. The judges may need to be put under investigation. Those things carry like up to 40 years of prison time.
I'm not sure what to do about all of them.
Mark has been the best steward of them all, if that can be a given.
He has helped me to build/rebuild a multibillion dollar co.
Richard Fairley
fbfounderNative
I'm also gay and love bbc.
Richard Fairley
fbfounderNative
>>61747208
I guess that's not that great.
Kinda. Always have your side jobs lined up so you can leave if management is too much of a dick.
It means you are working at a place, where work ethic, shifts, and workload hasn't been distributed properly yet. And even if they have been developed, a 2-3x sudden growth might mean they have to be recreated.
Its like a lot of jobs: Its mostly fine, but remember that you should leave if things get bad(too high workload, whoever is in charge is too much of a dick)
>>61745978
Having done both as internships. The startup is way more stressful. In a corporate environment you have no responsibility, and are a small part of anything. A startup means that you're way the fuck more responsible, and are a much more pivotal part of the team. Yeah most of the bureaucracy is gone, but is replaced with bad organization, bosses with conflicting strategies, and way more questions about what happens next.
>>61748818
Basically this. I had the same experience at a start up.
>>61745978
work discussion is not technology discussion
>>>/biz/
Its beyond fucking stressfull imo.
I spent the last 12 months at one as an intern only left 3 weeks ago.
As an intern I was expected to be able to be almost on par with the CTO skill wise.
The CTO himself was a developer who has only ever worked at 1 other company and considered his opinion the word of god. If you tried to ask him a question, he would tell you how moronic you were for even asking such a thing.
A good example of this was when i couldn't find a piece of code that i needed to build a micro service they wanted.
Apparently this piece of code was in a completely different service i had never even been told about.
He would also joke to all interns personally that he would fire them whenever a paid employee wanted a piece of gear.
So get used to asshole CTO's
Secondly you will need to get used to being expected to dedicate all your free time to working on company projects.
They expected me to do another 14hr's a week outside of work to work on company projects.
Another thing you will encounter is "friend politics".
A good example of this was when a friend of the CEO's girlfriend came over from another country to live here with the CEO's friend.
As nice as he was, he gave her a job in marketing (now they had 4 marketeers which were all intern-junior hybrids).
At some point it became so apparent that she was incompetent that i was asked to go scrape websites for potential customers and put them in excel sheets so she could show that to the sales CEO.
(at least i had my knob sucked by her for this)
Finally , get used to some abuse in the workplace.
Usually one higher up in the company will be an ADHD ridden bastard that will randomly touch/hug you and rough you up in the middle of work and call it "just be cool with it dude" or "liven it up dude"
Sorry for the rant, but i just want to warn you as best i can to not go and work for a start up.
There is nearly no structure and a lot of shit passes where other companies would fire you for
>>61751135
>an ADHD ridden bastard that will randomly touch/hug you and rough you up in the middle of work
kek
>>61745978
a little more stressful compared to lets say Google, because of the uncertainty, on the other hand, given the no or low revenue flow, you will be receiving capital shares, which is good when the company goes IPO / M&A
>being a founder
the most stressful thing, you are talking the responsibility for everything, but there are no other shortcuts on how to became a millionaire