Hello, I'm Jonanmaru.
Since this is a real estate enthusiast account, I've kept a certain distance from startup topics, but recently the trends in the industry have been interesting, and combined with my day job being related, I posted about it on X and got quite a response.
https://x.com/10000jonan/status/2075947921435165145
I previously wrote a Note like this, which was also widely read.
https://x.com/10000jonan/status/1983106686819922379
This is an area I understand with high resolution for my own career, and I think it's one of the few topics I can talk about with the same passion as real estate lol.
In the membership description, I mentioned "sometimes talking about careers...", so I hope you'll forgive me, and at the same time, I thought this might be worth reading widely, so this article is free in its entirety.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
First of all, startups are wonderful.
I started my professional career in a startup, and my life became richer.
A normal student who couldn't even get close to a top-tier company entered a company that seemed fun for some reason, was able to immerse himself in work with the surplus energy of his 20s, gained experience of success and failure from decision-making situations carrying budgets and discretion, and further obtained significant economic returns through SO (Stock Options).
As a result of luckily drawing a winning career ticket, I think I'm on the side with economic leeway among general people in their late 20s/early 30s (by the way, real estate enthusiasts are crazy, so I belong to the bottom 10% among them lol).
X often sees critical reviews of startups, but in most cases, they are thrown from outside the startup world.
I think it's unavoidable in a sense.
The people throwing stones are likely "employees" walking top-tier careers in traditional Japanese companies, consulting, or foreign firms.
Compared to those people, the number of "employees" who have been rewarded in startups is clearly small (especially economically).
I think it's unavoidable that the resolution of success patterns is low.
And I can agree with some of those outsider opinions.
Although a startup is one ship, I feel it's time to look at the fact that the "entrepreneur" and the "employee" who make up that ship have completely different survival strategies.
As startups have become more common thanks to the entrepreneurs and VCs who led the way, many excellent "employees" are now flowing in.
It's common for such excellent employees to end up saying "this wasn't what I thought" and become startup-hopping talent (whom I personally certify as the worst kind of professional).
I want to reduce the number of such pathetic people as much as possible.
Although I can't call myself an expert, I have many opportunities to touch the capital markets and I pride myself on having looked at startups bird's-eye view without depending on my own success bias.
I will write my impressions for those who currently belong to a startup or those who are interested in startups.
Startup Impressions
The rest is in the following Note! (It's free in its entirety)
