Big companies excel at retaining employees by offering signing bonuses and regular stock option grants, making it difficult for young people to leave and pursue their own ventures. Working at a big tech company can be a trap because it often leads to increased spending on lifestyle, such as nicer apartments and vacations, rather than gaining valuable experience for starting your own company.

Working at a big company often makes you a small part of a large machine, which limits your learning and slows your pace of growth compared to creating your own startup where you are responsible for everything.

As a startup, you can compete with big tech companies by moving quickly through the hiring process, which often takes weeks for candidates at companies like Facebook or Google.

Working at a big tech company like Google can instill a mindset focused on scalability, which may not be helpful in the early stages of a startup where doing things that don't scale is often necessary.

Today, college students obsess over jobs at big tech companies like Facebook and Google, seeking the same status and structure previously associated with finance and consulting careers.

Technical founders often misunderstand the value they can extract from working at FAANG companies, thinking they will work on significant projects, but often they end up doing less impactful tasks.

Working at a FAANG company can create a dependency on their tools and infrastructure, making it challenging for founders to adapt when starting their own companies without those resources.

In today's corporate culture, many people feel pressured to suppress their true selves at work, leading to a robotic existence driven by fear of losing their jobs.

When a company grows to thousands of employees, bureaucracy can become an organizational problem, complicating decision-making processes and creating unnecessary red tape.