What’s actually going on inside these companies?
Are they profitable? How much are they burning? Are they really growing that fast? And are founders/employees building for the long term or basically aiming for an acquisition?
Would be interested to hear from anyone who’s worked at one of these companies.
Does it give you FOMO?
I'm starting as SRE @FAANG soon as a career switcher so that's cool in a brand new low level domain in storage. Out of my depth again given lack of knowledge but makes me wonder if a lot of these AI companies will have better outcomes.
And there are actually some which are really big. But there are so many more overflowing the world with non existing businesses that it's hard to decipher what is real and what is not. It also makes learning from the successful ones way harder.
Now it’s a competition to be more manic than your competitors, and everyone has a gun out to shoot anyone who breaks the illusion of unlimited growth and unimaginable wealth