wisdomHunt: post #602 — TG.ME

Case for building a startup Building a startup, if you can, beats almost anything else on the table. The Cursor guys make the case clean: co-founder Sualeh Asif's stake is now worth $2.7 billion, four years after starting Anysphere. Do the math and you see he was doing $56 million per month. Compare that to a $20k capped salary at Google. This is a 3000x difference. Sualeh is Pakistani. He did math olympiads before MIT. So, he has a lesson to share with us, and the lesson is not - become the hustling, talkative, self-proclaimed Steve Jobs who talks a vision without substance. It is - study, build real depth in something hard. Bring an actual skill to the table, math, engineering, research, whatever it is, and pair with people who have equally strong skills. A startup is real skills compounding into something big, not a personality performance. That's the trade worth making.