Published: 2014-04-29 15:38:45
On its face, the winners, here, are the people with the big successful exits. But after reading No Exit, a different conclusion presents itself. The real winners are the happy and well-paid engineers, enjoying their lives and their youth while working for great companies like Google and Facebook. In the world of startups, the only winning move, it seems, is not to play.
My Two Cents
Why get up in the morning if you are afraid of failure. Just let the incumbents runs your life, your schedule and your pay scale... No Exit by Lewis-Kraus is not new to anyone who has been around the block. All any of us can do is keep fighting the good fight, build products and services that people will use in varying degrees. Worstall's article here provides some healthy perspective on the reality / pessimism delivered by Salmon and Lewis-Kraus.