TLDR Tech / Founders
Be a Winner, or Join One?
Start a company, or join an AI company that's already winning? The old tradeoff was stability versus ownership, but now the big labs are where the risky technical work happens, and a two-person startup can end up building a minor feature around their models. A spreadsheet can compare salary, equity, and outcomes. It can't say how much responsibility you'll get, what you'll learn, or whether the problem matters, and those questions beat how ambitious the choice looks from outside.
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