If you look at the expected rate-of-return for each of these (salary, benefits, stocks) and benchmark them against the market, they aren’t dramatically different from what you could get working at the stereotypical big company. In fact, they are worse on average—with one exception:
Rate Of Learning (ROL).
Rate-of-learning is the velocity at which you are aggregating new insights and deploying them in ways that build value.;
High rate of learning gives you more leverage than money does. And learning is an end in itself.
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