Friday, September 5, 2014

Dumb Money on the Streets of San Francisco

I overheard this last night while passing two people on Sutter Street in San Francisco:
She was able to get a $70,000 a year job, without any experience. Some startup was able to raise $5 million and she worked there until the company blew through all the money.
The Fed money printing is putting a lot of  money in the hands of people who have no clue as to how to evaluate a business opportunity. If you want to raise money, do it now, while the Fed money machine is still cranking.

-RW

3 comments:

  1. I know two people close to me that have been doing this for a good 5-8 years...they go to a company with venture capital money...the company burns it up and they move on...it's blows my mind sometimes.

    One is in Los Angeles and done it three times in around 6 years(internet industry), the other is in Toronto(Canada) and done it about the same(Pharma).

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  2. Been there done that. I worked for Ask Jeeves as a programmer in 01-02. Same thing. People who should have been asking you what you wanted with your latte getting jobs.

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  3. Anybody want to venture to guess as to how she got the job? Or, how he would?

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