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What's a reasonable salary for a seed stage founder? I've heard people say numbers from 120K to 30K. What's the consensus?

I know we all hate cubicles, but I feel like many people owe it to that little soul sucking box for making them think about new paths.

"You can be a millionaire if you stick out your FAANG job" Yea but have you considered how much more fun doing a startup is?

"Be your own boss" is so funny to me. Like I now have 50 bosses and they're far less patient than my last one

There are more lies told via Stripe screenshots than anywhere else in the world.

Founders love to say “we’re building in public” when they’re just tweeting through a breakdown.

Founders don’t get weekends. They get "light work Saturdays" and "existential dread Sundays."

The founder-to-angel pipeline is just: 1. Start company 2. Suffer 3. Sell company 4. Start investing in other people’s suffering

Being a founder is just saying “this is fine” every day until the company either dies or gets acquired.

It blew my world wide open when I found out that most founders that exit don't even get a big payday.

Remember:

Founders: I want freedom. Also founders: Raises $3M to build a software prison they can never leave.

I once got asked if I get to pick my own hours. Yes, I get to pick which 80 hours a week I work.

revenue? no. but we are in a group chat with a guy who met Marc Andreessen once

LinkedIn is just startup fanfiction

every founder’s journey ends with “and then I became a ghostwriter for other founders”

nothing bonds cofounders like mutually assured bankruptcy

my cofounder and i have the same vision. we're both confused, just in sync

startup advice is either “build something people want” or “have rich friends”