And where is the startup who is willing to pay even 1X what an engineer is worth?
The people going on and on about "hire the best of the best" all seem to be type-A Bros with MBAs who decided they should be CEO at 22 and confuse teenage testosterone for savvy business sense.
And of course these are also to the type that claim %2.5 in the company (5 year vesting 1 year cliff, natch) and a $80k salary is going to really make you rich when the company takes off.
If I was a 10X engineer (I've never seen one, in fact, I've never even met anyone who has met one) I wouldn't fall for that. Assuming I'm a 1X engineer, well, I'm already smart enough not to fall for that.
(So, my advice is, only take the risk of joining a startup if you're earning %33 of the equity-- eg you're a founder, and that's borderline- take %33 if the other two founders are stronger than you... otherwise try to cofound and take $50 of the pre-investment (or %51). My other advise is, the CEO should be an engineer. MBAs are cheep, young MBAs need guidance.)
But yeah I'd too like to see a list of videos about good programmers at work. Anyone have good recommendations or links to playlists? One I've been following is Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero series. He's quite good and easy to believe 10x average when he's not doing it with such an educational focus (and in 1 hour stretches on evenings).
