I just read it, and I think my point still stands. To be more concrete, here’s what I would, and did, do: spend some time coming up with startup ideas (following Paul Graham’s advice), after some time, look through them all, come up with their expected values, and choose.
I think that there are a lot of ideas that Alexei has the technical skills to build, and the insightfulness to discover. And I think that a lot of these ideas are orders of magnitude more profitable than the game startup. At the very least, I think that the chances of these two above statements being true are high enough where it’s worth thinking hard about, instead of saying “I’m good at game development.… I’ll do game development.”
Wow, I’m surprised you commented on a post that’s so old. I’ve left the game industry completely since then and have now been at Google for 7 months. I agree with you that startups are great and very high EV (measured in $), quiet likely higher than any salaried job. However, for various reasons that I mentioned in my job search post that Unnnamed linked above, I chose to pursue immediate donation from salary. If you want to discuss this further, I’d be happy to PM you my email address.
I just read it, and I think my point still stands. To be more concrete, here’s what I would, and did, do: spend some time coming up with startup ideas (following Paul Graham’s advice), after some time, look through them all, come up with their expected values, and choose.
I think that there are a lot of ideas that Alexei has the technical skills to build, and the insightfulness to discover. And I think that a lot of these ideas are orders of magnitude more profitable than the game startup. At the very least, I think that the chances of these two above statements being true are high enough where it’s worth thinking hard about, instead of saying “I’m good at game development.… I’ll do game development.”
Hey adamzerner,
Wow, I’m surprised you commented on a post that’s so old. I’ve left the game industry completely since then and have now been at Google for 7 months. I agree with you that startups are great and very high EV (measured in $), quiet likely higher than any salaried job. However, for various reasons that I mentioned in my job search post that Unnnamed linked above, I chose to pursue immediate donation from salary. If you want to discuss this further, I’d be happy to PM you my email address.