How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k.html
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takumi
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Oct 22 2008
how the github founder chose starting up over fat bonus.
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hideki
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Oct 22 2008
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In the end, just as Indiana Jones could never turn down the opportunity to search for the Holy Grail, I could no less turn down the chance to work for myself on something I truly love, no matter how safe the alternative might be. When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say “wow, that was an adventure,” not “wow, I sure felt safe.”
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