Advice for new programmers: College vs Startup | Guido van Rossum and Lex Fridman

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Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python programming language.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python programming language.

[High_Rate]

Hasn’t the young entrepreneur thing been debunked?

Most successful entrepreneurs start out in a field, get good at their area, and then pivot?

[peppercornfury]

Big companies need inventors as well, and they can offer stability. Every company is different. Not black and white. I also like the programmer who decidedly never becomes a manager.

[cytroyd]

I aim to work in a company while working on my own stuff.

[ojjoooooo]

I still don't know: College or Startup?

[misterbeach]

I own a bigger company that has one of the top 5 tech corps as an investor. But I started to code as an 8-year-old. I know many tech billionaires and heavy millionaires. What I can tell is that if you started to code at university, you are very late. If you started your first company at the age of 18, you will never be happy as an employee, unless it is your company. If you have a YouTube channel as an engineer, you are not an entrepreneur nor an engineer but a show master -- you need the public. If you have the best degree, and the best university under your belt, maybe go better to a large corp because you may not fit to a real startup. After all, startups are quite risky initially; it is why older devs struggle to get on board, not only financially. And here's the thing: working 9-5 as a Google engineer is cool, and gives you capital. After a few years, you not only own a house but can still... either found a startup as a sideline or invest yourself in other startups (instead of stocks). And, the truth is, most startup founders never make much money ;) and so meeting your old Google buddies after 10 years can be quite embarrassing, if you never made it, because they rock and have a stellar CV too.

[thomasmclain]

If you think you’ve got a killer app go for it for two years, but have a plan B.

[swedishpsychopath]

Sadly python is flawed and not easy at all to understand for children. Try adding 0.1 three times like this: x = 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 THEN print( x ) gives, yayy!
(but if you add 0.1 TWO times the answer is 0.2, which is correct - meaning python is not consistent when it is wrong either and you'll never know when python gives you the correct answer - yayy!). The no paranthesis but indentation stuff is a nice idea but EXTREMELY difficult for children to understand. If the child makes ONE indentation out of place python spits out strange messages NOT related to the indentation error, but side effetcs of the now flawed logic.

[spokesperson_usa]

Now that Python has become as verbose as Rust because of unchecked type hints, there are fewer and fewer good reasons to use Python every day.