Why did startups become mainstream?
On August 21st of 2011 I heard about startups popping out of nowhere from various places.
Some of them were basically made to aid you in a car or either in simple things in a daily basis.
The thing is: why I don’t like the idea of how startups dominated the new engineers generations.
Well, here’s the answer.
I think since 2011 most of engineers were leaping from job to job using startups as a scapegoat.
I say that because I have already seen a bunch of qualified people wasting their talent to build startups when they could actually do something on enterprises and really change the world in a higher scale.
It is very easy to be in your comfort zone having any type of JavaScript ideas on how to make a new app instead of really making an impact on huge projects.
As an example, in my case, I will definitely pursue something that has everything to do with what I chose rather than doing an startup.
It’s a kind of megalomania for fresh engineers and recent graduates to not submit their labor a d instead creating a random startup where they can be CEO’s without having worked hard.
When you do something you like, it’s supposed to work in that area of study. That’s what make a bachelor be worthwhile.
To summarize: given the fact that there are a lot of startups nowadays, entrepreneurs are abusing of trainees, opening up a void for them to give up their careers.
To put it clear: I don’t like the idea of how startups are being used as slave jobs just to have a spot on silicon valley for example.
Working hard on what you really think it’s going to make a change, maybe a real change in the industry, growing from the roots, can be more rewarding rather than just doing a tiny startup enterprise and try to get a easy spot among the greatests, which is not impossible, but not likely.
As a conclusion, I respect all of the startups that really had an impact on softwares and androids, iOS for example. It just gets to my nerves the fact that it kinda sounds like you haven’t paid enough attention to your classes in order to be a real engineer and instead coming up with something useless when you could become a great CEO of a great enterprise and really make the change.
That’s all folks.
See you in space,
André Pena
