> start your own software company that is eventually acquired by a large company
Just a heads up, that isn't how it works. If you've built a product that's good enough to be turned into a company and be bought by google/ms/etc, they don't want to hire you. They want your product. If they hired you, you'd steal away their workers to make another startup. At least that's the usual line of thinking.
Source: this happened to 3 friends of mine, whose companies were purchased by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Working around startup folk, this is a common story.
Too quick to generalize from your exp; brother founded a company w product good enough to get noticed, but it was an aquihire situation; FB wanted him and his cofounder, not the product/IP.
Just a heads up, that isn't how it works. If you've built a product that's good enough to be turned into a company and be bought by google/ms/etc, they don't want to hire you. They want your product. If they hired you, you'd steal away their workers to make another startup. At least that's the usual line of thinking.
Source: this happened to 3 friends of mine, whose companies were purchased by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Working around startup folk, this is a common story.