←back to thread

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

(medium.com)
2101 points jamesjyu | 1 comments | 07 Feb 19 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.448s | source
Show context
sixQuarks ◴[07 Feb 19 15:53 UTC] No.19105943[source]▶
Ouch, number 2 employee at Pinterest - a $10 billion company that’s about to go public this year.

He probably would have been worth an easy 100-200 million.

replies(8): >>19105991 #>>19106042 #>>19106359 #>>19106363 #>>19106427 #>>19106443 #>>19106742 #>>19109545 #
the_cat_kittles[dead post] ◴[07 Feb 19 22:59 UTC] No.19109545[source]▶
who gives a fuck. i wish people would say this more, especially on this site. stop worshiping money. why am i saying this here, on what is a 50% get rich quick scheme site? i dont know... i somehow enjoy the downvotes. if you offered me 200 million to throw away a couple years of my life at pintrest, the thrill of saying "no" would far outweigh the benefit of being a sellout. only do stuff that is cool on its merits if you can possibly manage to. im sure almost no one here agrees with that but i find it cathartic to shout it at deaf ears.
1. galfarragem ◴[08 Feb 19 00:08 UTC] No.19109986[source]▶
Paraphrasing (probably Nietzsche):

"There are only 3 kinds of people: the poor that wants to be rich, the rich that wants to continue being rich and the idealist, that using his ideals wants to be rich."