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by zer01
1521 days ago
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I highly recommend the solo founder + consulting path. Look around you and find a problen you want to solve, and try to solve it well. Maximize for being able to spend time on that thing. Do consulting work when you need money or want to change things up a bit. Eventually along the journey you’ll find other bright and motivated people who you will want to work with (as friends first), and possibly form a team of cofounders to build stuff together. I was in a similar spot about 5 years ago and not only has this path given me numerous ways to hone my skills across a broad spectrum of disciplines and stacks (not to mention dealing with very real “business shit”), but you meet wonderful people as part of this, gain a “see it with your own eyes” perspective of how dysfunctional most orgs actually are, and you forge a lot of good contacts and in-roads who can potentially be future customers of a product you build. Selling things is so much easier if you have people championing you internally, and people will happily champion you if you prove your competence and truly solve their problems. You also get real agency with this path - if you’re doing consulting work to pay your bills but maximizing for your free time to build products, you can also just…not build products for a bit. I’ve learned many skills, do personal research projects, and get to spend more time with people I love as a result. Obviously I’m incredibly privileged to be in this position but I truly believe if you’re competent and maybe a bit clever the opportunity is still there and very much alive. The best part is that if you no longer find it palatable, it serves as the best resume fodder you can possibly have - just go back to the “normal” working world and kick off the cycle again later using what you learn on someone else’s time (while also being an excellent internal contributor because they may also be your customer some day). |
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