Many founders struggle to transition from working at large tech companies like Google or Facebook to starting their own startups because they are used to relying on the infrastructure and tools provided by those companies. Starting a startup requires creating everything from scratch and founders often have to unlearn the high standards and processes they were accustomed to at their previous jobs.

You'd be surprised at how many founders that we talk to will tell you that nothing they did in their job translates at all to their startup.

And it's because you have so much infrastructure inside of Google or Facebook to do your job, and they have their own way of doing code reviews.

So when you start a startup and you have none of it and you're starting from scratch, you're dependent on those tools There's no tooling.

You have to create everything from scratch And so again, what's funny is like, you know, you learn a lot of stuff But a lot of what you learn is how to use the tools of the Fang Which you don't get to use when you don't work there anymore

I think when you work on a thing, founders find that there's more they have to unlearn.

I've worked with so many Google engineers who are just like, their standard for getting a product into even beta at Google is 10x what an MVP in a startup is, and they just have to unlearn.

And I've had to fight with founders on that, where it's like, this would never see the light of day at Google.


Speaker 0: You'd be surprised at how many founders that we talk to will tell you that nothing they did in their job translates at all to their startup. And it's because you have so much infrastructure inside of Google or Facebook to do your job, and they have their own way of doing code reviews. Like there's just all this stuff. So when you start a startup and you have none of it and you're starting from scratch, you're dependent on those tools There's no tooling. There's no infrastructure.

You have to create everything from scratch And so again, what's funny is like, you know, you learn a lot of stuff But a lot of what you learn is how to use the tools of the Fang Which you don't get to use when you don't work there anymore

Speaker 1: I think when you work on a thing, founders find that there's more they have to unlearn. I've worked with so many Google engineers who are just like, their standard for getting a product into even beta at Google is 10x what an MVP in a startup is, and they just have to unlearn. And I've had to fight with founders on that, where it's like, this would never see the light of day at Google.

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