Worked in a dozen start ups and all but 2 still stand today. Going from startup to big tech is hard because there's a process you will need to follow and the work may not always be exciting. But the pay, bonus, options make up for it. Going from big tech to start up is easy when you have a nest egg built up. If you don't it'll be a major struggle and it's not worth it to be honest.
Pretty sure amazon, google, facebook, twitter built a product first before price. Sometimes it really is about innovation, once you do that, the money follows.
As someone that once owned an artisan chocolate factory, based on what I can see, I can make and sell this chocolate for around $5-6 wholesale. Meaning if I can unload 30,000-50,000 bars to Safeway.
Most developer bros still think modern JS is Jquery but unnecessary. I've had "Senior" engineers ask why we need Webpack because it's too complicated and unnecessary and wanted to take it out. Others who think Angular is the same as Bootstrap which is a UI framework. And those who doesn't even know what ES6 is.
Exactly, Target's pick up in store is really fast and simple. I had ordered a gift for my friend half way across the states and he was able to go and just pick it up himself the next day
This is just a feel good story, I don't know why people analyzing it to death. He's basically no different than ab ebay power seller. But instead of buying wholesale, he buys clearance items.