• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    To be honest? I don’t care how an honest innovator is supposed to survive. It’s not my responsibility to risk my sanity and my financial stability for someone else’s dream.

    I spent long enough in a crappy startup. Not doing that again.

    Also, it’s not exactly fair to lump youtube in with the average startup that any random person will work in. Youtube was created by three super rich ex-Paypalers and within a year it was big enough to be sold for €1.3 billion. It was basically founded as a mega corporation, including everything that a huge corporation requires (structures, HR, good salaries and so on).

    Can’t find anything on canonical’s history.

    While Youtube was technically classified as a startup, it’s a far cry from the average 5 person startup that you’ll usually find when talking about startups.