Quincy Larson

So I always push people in the direction of like, if you want to de-risk your future, go just work for somebody else. And they've already figured out like the money part of it. And they figured out how to offer you this salary. And then you can take that salary or that contractor compensation per month or whatever. And then you can just take that money and you can get paid to learn.

So I always push people in the direction of like, if you want to de-risk your future, go just work for somebody else. And they've already figured out like the money part of it. And they figured out how to offer you this salary. And then you can take that salary or that contractor compensation per month or whatever. And then you can just take that money and you can get paid to learn.

And so I always encourage people to go work for somebody else first, just to de-risk it a little bit. And you'll learn a ton on somebody else's dime. But I would say absolutely, if you've already worked as a developer, you should consider entrepreneurial opportunities.

And so I always encourage people to go work for somebody else first, just to de-risk it a little bit. And you'll learn a ton on somebody else's dime. But I would say absolutely, if you've already worked as a developer, you should consider entrepreneurial opportunities.

But everybody and their dog is selling some book about entrepreneurship or they've got some podcast talking about entrepreneurship. And I just want to make it abundantly clear, like, I think that entrepreneurship is great, but I think it's great to work for somebody else first. You know, like Jeff Bezos worked for many years for other people before he founded Amazon. Right?

But everybody and their dog is selling some book about entrepreneurship or they've got some podcast talking about entrepreneurship. And I just want to make it abundantly clear, like, I think that entrepreneurship is great, but I think it's great to work for somebody else first. You know, like Jeff Bezos worked for many years for other people before he founded Amazon. Right?

And that's true of most. And by the way, I think this is the second time I mentioned Jeff Bezos. I don't even think I'm like a Jeff Bezos stan or anything like that.

And that's true of most. And by the way, I think this is the second time I mentioned Jeff Bezos. I don't even think I'm like a Jeff Bezos stan or anything like that.

But I think it's hard to argue that he's been extremely effective at accomplishing his goal, which maybe was just to make a ton of money, right? And I think there's something to learn there, regardless of your opinion of him as a human being. Like, you know, don't judge the teacher, but judge the teaching, I guess. So you can take a look at a lot of successful people.

But I think it's hard to argue that he's been extremely effective at accomplishing his goal, which maybe was just to make a ton of money, right? And I think there's something to learn there, regardless of your opinion of him as a human being. Like, you know, don't judge the teacher, but judge the teaching, I guess. So you can take a look at a lot of successful people.

And usually at the beginning of their successful journey, they were working for somebody else and learning, making a ton of mistakes on their dime and then taking the lessons from that experience, then applying it so that they had sufficiently de-risked their own endeavor.

And usually at the beginning of their successful journey, they were working for somebody else and learning, making a ton of mistakes on their dime and then taking the lessons from that experience, then applying it so that they had sufficiently de-risked their own endeavor.

And the other thing I'll point out is most people who are successful entrepreneurs, at least in the United States, are not 20 somethings that dropped out of college and stuff like that. They're, they're

And the other thing I'll point out is most people who are successful entrepreneurs, at least in the United States, are not 20 somethings that dropped out of college and stuff like that. They're, they're

people in their 40s that have already lived through some experience and have a much more high-resolution model of how the world works and how business gets done and how things get done and rules and regulations and how financial reporting works. All these different things that you will learn just working in a giant corporation for a while. The dynamic of managers.

people in their 40s that have already lived through some experience and have a much more high-resolution model of how the world works and how business gets done and how things get done and rules and regulations and how financial reporting works. All these different things that you will learn just working in a giant corporation for a while. The dynamic of managers.

It's hard to be a good manager if you've never been managed. Those kinds of things. Obviously, you know, Adam, you served in the military, right? Like you learned probably a tremendous amount about how the world works by flying around, you know, Bosnia and places like that and seeing it on the ground and being part of a hierarchy, right? That is invaluable.

It's hard to be a good manager if you've never been managed. Those kinds of things. Obviously, you know, Adam, you served in the military, right? Like you learned probably a tremendous amount about how the world works by flying around, you know, Bosnia and places like that and seeing it on the ground and being part of a hierarchy, right? That is invaluable.

So I don't want you all to think like I'm just like some puppet for the man or something like that, but like really go out and work for other people first and you're going to learn so much and you're going to just de-risk. I know I'm being extremely redundant and I've said that like three times, but I genuinely think it. It's an important lesson that you may not be hearing from enough people.

So I don't want you all to think like I'm just like some puppet for the man or something like that, but like really go out and work for other people first and you're going to learn so much and you're going to just de-risk. I know I'm being extremely redundant and I've said that like three times, but I genuinely think it. It's an important lesson that you may not be hearing from enough people.