Codecademy is smart - they realize that collecting use/accomplishment data on high-quality lessons carries much more upside than trying to sell the content created on their platform.
Your answer is based entirely on the premise that working for a startup boils down to killing yourself for the chance to get rich, which couldn't be further from the truth.
The "rich people" who do startups do it because they love building things that solve big problems, the work hours and payouts are, if they're lucky, just a byproduct.
Sure, I'm 24 and I have basically nothing to lose, but really I have no choice - I have to build things. I can't deal with just performing maintenance.
And even if you are ok with just performing maintenance, working in a small team is simply more fun than working at a larger one.
Seriously, reflect more on this. Writing off startups because they're "in a business of greed" is a straw man at best.
Why is "resume comes in" always accepted as a given first step?
Redesigning the tech hiring process starts with discovery. You can't keep posting your hiring needs on HN, Github and Stackoverflow and just expect a great person to find you, read more about you, and pull a resume together for you to make your life easier. We expect you to make our life easier because we know we can work just about anywhere.
As I guess pg might say "Go to your users!" to founders looking for help making a decision, you need to go to us if you want to grow your team! We're real freaking people who hate creating a BS piece of paper for you that means absolutely nothing. Find us in person and spend time with us so we can skip this resume crap and focus on actually building things that we both actually enjoy.
As easy as that is to say, this isn't a get-bought-and-get-paid company; it's a shake-up-the-world company. I'm sure he and his co-founders discussed that at length and understand it.
And ultimately, if you have a remarkable team with strong financial backing, isn't that the type of company you really want to work for?
I'm having a hard time evaluating this. Is there a member who can accurately explain the real differences in value between owning a .com and .co domain?
For example, I imagine that .com just being the socialized norm does not come close to telling the whole story. Thanks.
Realizing that starting an email newsletter company is costless and doesn't have to distribute only news is actually a big idea. There's a ton of businesses to be made around distributing curating publicly available content, and being able to serve members of a community you really love is a rare, awesome opportunity.
I agree. There was recently a Startup Weekend event in Detroit with all of the displaced and laid off auto workers. It was pretty inspiring to see many of these people only working in the auto industry their whole lives, starting over again and starting startups.
Interesting to read that, but Chris and Peter are actually friends and he's very kindly helped provide guidance for this. I'll let you know if we get a call later though :-)