 Is startup better than top tier companies? Here's my honest opinion. Number one, some unicorn startups definitely way better than fan companies such as Airbnb, Instacar, and Notion. And many fan product managers want to join this company before they go IPO, such as Instacar. They just went IPO and stock price went through the roof and the original equity price went through the roof. People make so much money out of the pre-IPOs stage. And another friend of mine joined Google when Google only had 200 employees and he made $10 million and he retired at age of 30. Number two, working for startup usually is very exciting. You get to do anything, everything that has all different opportunities for you to grow with the company. But big tech companies like fan companies stay very stable. It's very hard for you to grow into a direct level in a short amount of time. Number three, startups can be very unstable. Sometimes they may run out of funding. Sometimes you might retire at age of 30 and making $10 million. So if you identify the pre-IPO fast-growing startup, it's better to join them than join the fan companies.