[eli]

The average expected income from working at a large corporate may well be higher than founding a startup. But there's at least the chance of making a lot of money in a startup. It's very unlikely that you'll stumble into a windfall working for a large corporation.

[cynicalkane]

Beware this logic; it leads to playing the lottery.

[beneth]

"You can't win if you don't play" isn't any less true with the lottery, you're just looking at much worse odds than other, more preferable, situations.

[moocow01]

Its also very unlikely you'll stumble into a windfall founding or working for a startup. Its something some may not want to hear but from a purely financial perspective of startup vs corp, 99% of cases it is always going to be financially better to work for a corp.

If you're working for a startup hopefully you are doing it for better reasons.

[lusr]

There's nothing stopping you from hedging your bets. I work full-time and put away 60%+ of it. This is capital for whatever investments I make, including into my own startup that I work on when I get home. Fact is I get paid what I do by the corp because I'm worth at least that much. As a single, unmarried software developer there's nothing stopping me from exploiting my value generating capabilities directly, so not attempting a startup is nonsensical IMO.