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Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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Michael Sival and Dalton Caldwell discuss the misconceptions technical founders have about the value of working at a FAANG company and highlight the differences between the founder path and the employee path.

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the struggles of working at FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and how to strategize leaving a big tech job to become a founder at a startup.

Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs

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