By Larry Chiang
I’m an expert in starting. From starting up your credit score to starting up a technical startup, I get it.
For example, these evergreen Stanford engineering videos.
Let us peer into my brain as it relates to “How working, works against young people”
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Since the beginning of time, old people have been taking advantage of young people by capturing equity via attrition. No. More.
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Myth: Do work for free to ‘get the exposure’
Larry Chiang’s truth: Free work begets more beggars asking you to do free work. Here is the best protocol. “#LCRRM”. Net, net you did free work but cash transacted twice. This signature business recipe #LCRRM, primes the pump.
Don’t work for free exposure. Work for a fee that you refund. Google #LCRRM.
Myth: Start working in the mailroom. Because you have to “put your time in”.
Wrong.
Larry Chiang’s truth: Do an #ExternalAPI

Myth: We promote from within. So you must start on the groundfloor.
Larry Chiang’s truth: Look for the side door. It’s where you take a shortcut doing a massive amount of work that has an uncertain return. Think of it as building a ladder that leans up against a building. No. Starting. On. The. Groundfloor.