[jacquesm]

Different strokes for different folks. Some people use airplanes for transportation, others go skydiving. The start-up lottery is a very fast way to learn a lot and probably not earn much, think of it as a school rather than a money making machine and it makes a lot more sense. If you then later apply all that you learned during those years in a non-start-up context you may still come out ahead.

[kamaal]

>>If you then later apply all that you learned during those years in a non-start-up context you may still come out ahead.

Unless the start up had something to do with politics, and you learned a lot about politics, you can't use any of your skills(related to actual work) to 'come out ahead' in a big company.

[jacquesm]

If all you learn in a start-up has to do with politics you're doing something very wrong.