Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: Ambition, Fun and Not
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/ambition-fun-and-not
- Read date:: 2025-07-05
Highlights
But if you detach startups from their reputation, this is kinda bizarre? Because the stylized definition of modern startup—a job to do whatever you want, with whoever you want, paid for by someone else, with $140 billion of upside and effectively no downside—sounds impossibly perfect. Of all jobs, how is that the one that the one that Jensen Huang would never do again? (View Highlight)
Early in their lives, startups kind of are that idealized passion project; once they begin chasing quarterly targets, they become a business, and all the jobs that come with that. (View Highlight)