My favorite idea from this post is that you can have a big impact on the company at a small startup, but you can have a bigger impact on the world at a big company. Moving the needle a little bit has a big impact
Drastically missed this point when I thought I’d be able to make a huge impact at a small startup.
Relative, maybe true. But now I work at a pretty big company after multiple startups, and if I improve any key metric by like 1% it’s a massive, massive impact financially (and selfishly sounds way better as an anecdote on my resume).
Have enjoyed both worlds for what they are, but I definitely didn’t understand this when I was earlier in my career.
Maybe, but improving something by 50% in a startup feels much better to me than improving it by 1% in a large company, even if the absolute number is ultimately higher.
