There is a question on Zhihu: Why don’t older programmers choose to start their own business? Before you look at my analysis, you can think about why? What’s the reason?
In fact, this question is just like what Xie Chunlin said in Zhihu @, which makes no sense. The abilities needed by programmers and entrepreneurs are completely different.
“Why don’t older designers start their own business?”
“Why don’t older salesmen choose to start their own business?”
“Why don’t old cleaners choose to start their own business?”
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In the field of programmers, why don’t older programmers start their own businesses? That’s a good way to answer that question.
1. Older programmers understand the difficulty of starting a business
Older programmers may have more experience and more work experience. Maybe different companies, especially startups, have gone through that kind of life or death phase of the company, even going out of business, going bankrupt. Rich work experience, used to watching the ups and downs of start-up companies, naturally know how deep the water of entrepreneurship?
In addition, older programmers rich work experience and experience, leading them to look at things, do things very smooth, even in the face of job has a smooth feel, once formed this kind of attitude and effort, basically means that they are not the pursuit of the life, there is no requirement to work, it is difficult to have the entrepreneurial mindset, nature also have no ambition. Otherwise, they will work hard and won’t be glib and cut corners.
2, older programmers are very heavy burden, resulting in dare not break
Once older programmers are over 30 years old, they may get married and have children. Facing the pressure of family and raising children, they can only strive for stability. As a result, they dare not break through and no longer have the mentality of being fearless.
In fact, in today’s era of mobile Internet, there are many exemplary examples of entrepreneurs who become famous before the age of 30. For example, Cheng Wei of Didi Taxi founded Xiaoju Technology before the age of 29. Zhang Yiming, also in 83, founded Bytedance at the age of 29. There’s no telling how powerful Toutiao is now. Meituan’s current CEO, Wang Xing, founded Xiaonei at the age of 26 and Meituan at the age of 30. Yes, almost all of them started their own businesses at the age of 30, and now they are star companies. Not to mention Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, both started their businesses in college.
From the above example, we can see that many people succeed in starting their own business after working for 3-5 years or after graduating from college, because young and energetic people have many ideas and dare to work hard. Older age, more concerns, will become a hindrance to entrepreneurship.
Through the screening of time, the pros and cons have been divided
Older programmers are actually experienced filter has the rest of the time, and good people in older before they have become very good, or very successful, such as those above, and if this road go straight technology, very professional and thorough, an expert in a field, salary is also calculate by salary, as good as entrepreneurship, but also stable, why also start a business?
Common features of programmers, technology and entrepreneurship are very different
Last but not least, most programmers are introverted and may prefer to deal with machines rather than people. Such a personality is not suitable for starting a business. Besides, only technical skills are not enough. Starting a business requires an overall view, a product view, marketing and marketing skills, as well as the ability to perceive market opportunities. Starting a business is not that simple.
Therefore, in the older stage, there are too many obstacles to start a new business. If there is not a particularly good opportunity, the success rate of starting a new business is not very high.
It’s from a programmer who’s starting a startup.
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