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I've experienced working at a large traditional company, early stage startup, founding a fund, and founding a startup. Some random thoughts - AIG: work hard and learn a lot but difficult to have autonomy with layers of management, most there to collect paycheck, how you stand out depends on manager - Coinbase (30-150 employees): work hard but first time work didn't feel like work since cared deeply, tons of autonomy, first time working with many mission driven colleagues, can stand out taking initiative, did not have a sense of how hard being a founder was for Brian + Fred - Scalar (founded fund): work harder (no days off in week), decisions fall on founders so huge sense of ownership, lows are really low, first sense of how hard things can really get - Bountycaster (founded company): work harder than founding fund (default is work and then carve out personal time), cycles of highs and lows much more rapid than fund, feel most fulfilled due to ownership, mission, and connecting with users
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Super impressive LInda. Had no idea, but also not too surprised based on the way you've been able to drive the agenda of your current 2 person start up, while also working on side projects. Cheers to you and all of your future successes. 💛
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I don't find working on side projects sustainable with Bountycaster. I took on the documentary work 3 years ago when I was doing Scalar and had capacity. The documentary release is happening while I'm doing Bountycaster so the work is at a sacrifice to sleep transparently. I don't regret it at all because this project means a lot to me and I want to see it to completion but I don't want to mislead that a company + side project is close to sustainable for me. Once it's done, I'll have no side project with Bountycaster
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