Unless you are at one of the rare startups that has investors flocking to give it money despite zero revenue, "immediate profits" == "building a userbase". I've worked at startups where I was the only dev and where I was one of 50. It really depends on the startup as far as craziness. I did see a lot of things that I found familiar while watching Silicon Valley, but a lot of the intensity is because they are founders. If you are a normal startup employee, you are just working for your (maybe slightly lower) salary. Unless you 10000% believe in the startup and trust the founders and also idk have a trust fund, don't work for just equity. That also is where the long hours start coming in because now your financial future is entirely tied to this one company.
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Unless you are at one of the rare startups that has investors flocking to give it money despite zero revenue, "immediate profits" == "building a userbase". I've worked at startups where I was the only dev and where I was one of 50. It really depends on the startup as far as craziness. I did see a lot of things that I found familiar while watching Silicon Valley, but a lot of the intensity is because they are founders. If you are a normal startup employee, you are just working for your (maybe slightly lower) salary. Unless you 10000% believe in the startup and trust the founders and also idk have a trust fund, don't work for just equity. That also is where the long hours start coming in because now your financial future is entirely tied to this one company.