Easy startups outside of crypto are bad since it’s hard to succeed enough to IPO or get acquired

Easy startups in crypto are fine since tokens let the first few dozen employees get an exit in a year

Thinking back to this Sam Altman quote:

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To me, startups are, and always have been, a means to an end, and end of which is more humans liberated to explore this great universe.

I fundamentally don't get people to whom startups are the end, that the goal of life is to build a big startup with as many people as possible that you get to control.

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I'd frame it another way - startups are a great life adventure, and the adventure changes as the startup grows, so it'd be cool to experience all of it

And ofc, working on a startup that you're fascinated by, and think all the time about, is also a joy, since most people spend most of their waking hours working