I disagree with your approach on deciding if YC is worth it. I feel like VCs are particularly biased against YC and are incentivized to tell you it's not worth it. I think what you should have done is also seek out as many YC alumni as you can and ask what their opinion was. I guarantee you all of them would've said it's worth it.
Readit Newsgray_50 commented on Everything I wish I had known about raising a seed round mdwdotla.medium.com/every... · Posted by u/mad
Reliability and composability are two reasons.
With a blockchain architecture, the app can't go down unless the entire blockchain goes down. And apps can be built piecemeal by many teams/hackers who add small bits of functionality here and there through standardized interfaces, rather than top-down by trusted agencies - "money legos".
+1 on this answer. Put another way, it's a programmable settlement layer for the internet that anyone can access and is always online. Add in standardized interfaces and all applications built on it become easier to work with and extend.
I’ve worked with people who could have written this post with the stats and how they consider themselves, but they were awful to work with. People didn’t challenge them because it was exhausting, because they knew best, despite their constant churning out of garbage code that the business didn’t have the guts to address.
That’s not to say you’re bad or your code is bad, but it’s definitely worth considering whether the way you’re measuring yourself is a true reflection of your value: have you talked to your co-workers about what it’s like to work with you? What value you provide to them? How you can contribute to their careers, their work? The greatest value you can deliver to a business is rarely code: if you can improve every other developer by 1x, the business will be much better off than you being on an island all by yourself.
My measure of myself always starts with whether or not people enjoy working with me, whether I’m providing value to the people around me: I could write 10x as much code as I do now, but I don’t believe it would have better results for the company overall.
I agree with this. Worked with a guy who sounds exactly like OP. The official perception was that he was a smart 10x engineer. But off the record people actually hated working with him. He was a massive control freak and the only reason we bought anything up with him was so he didn't have a cry about it later.
Sometimes the "10x engineer" is just the one that's loudest and most persistent. Doesn't mean they're good. Just means no one else can be fucked dealing with them.
gray_50 commented on Many software companies are a joke liou28335.medium.com/many... · Posted by u/openplatypus
I've worked at all company sizes from big tech, scale ups, and early stage startups. From my experience, I've learnt the most and done a lot of interesting work when the company size was smaller. Although a lot of people seem to care most about what I did at the big tech company and get surprised when I tell them I spent the whole sprint fixing some line on some sub menu.