Why should I work at a startup?

• Massive career growth in a short span
• Increased learning rate
• Ownership and responsibility
• Freedom to execute at the peak of your ability (and in many cases beyond what you think you are capable of)
• Extremely high financial upside if the startup goes well
• The ability to have major impact on that financial upside
• Depending on the startup: working with the best team you've ever been on
• Excitement at seeing something work for the first time

Startups are chaotic fun. They have a fundamentally different energy to a big company and attract a certain type of person. It's hard to describe unless you've experienced it for yourself. For me - going from a big company to a startup was like seeing color for the first time. Once you realize just how much fun work CAN be - it's impossible to go back.

How do I financially evaluate a startup offer?

A great thread on what goes into it from a pretty fantastic VC:

https://twitter.com/joshelman/status/1428206303546003467