| > However you will learn significantly more, build a stronger network, and accelerate your career trajectory much faster by joining a successful startup than an average one. smack forehead Yes, what ever could I have been thinking before! Yes, yes, I should only be joining a successful startup, not an average one! > steep career trajectories, like Jeff Dean, Marissa Mayer or Chris Cox. Yes yes! New plan: be Jeff Dean! > Next, you need to evaluate the strength of the team and market Unfortunately, this is not realistically possible for most non name-brand candidates. The company is not going to entertain the amount of inquiry (due diligence) you would need to pursue. > Evaluating the relationship between founders is as important as evaluating the founders themselves. Indeed it is! Good luck getting access to do that ... This article is just more hyperbole from triplebyte. I wonder how their business is doing ... https://triplebyte.com/careers: > We've already achieved profitablity But if I may quote from this article: > one thing we learned at YC was not to be fooled by large absolute numbers. What matters most is the growth rate. triplebyte, put your money where your mouth is and advertise your top line growth rate, not the fact that you are profitable. When your fee is on the order of $30k per hire and your infra and operating costs are low, I expect you to be profitable. |
Getting a sense of founder dynamics can be harder, depending on stage, but it's easy if you're early enough. I interviewed at Dropbox when it was 20 people and it was obvious what roles Drew and Arash played, as an example. At a larger stage this is harder, but you have more public sources of information at that point.
Regarding Triplebyte's profits, you should be asking how fast they're growing.
Finally, we should all be Jeff Dean. :)