This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Kathryn Gould: What Corporate Experience Offers Entrepreneurs" from February 13, 2015, featuring a conversation between Kathryn Gould and another speaker discussing the value of corporate experience for entrepreneurs and the evolving advice for young professionals entering the tech industry.
And here's where chance favors the prepared mind is one of my favorite sayings. Because all those years that I sort of wasted at big companies, I did develop a perspective of what big companies needed. And when I saw this product, I was like, this is going to change the world, the big company data world. And I got to be there.
Well, you know, that's always been the debate whether you should go work for a big company for a while and get perspective or go start in a small company and escape all the damage that a big company does to you.
Yeah, right. Big debate right now.
Where do you come down on it?
Well, in my day and in my career in the 40 years since then, I've always advised young people to go get a job at intel or Oracle or Google or some good place that's going to teach you some stuff and then go start a company. I'm not so sure that's the right advice now. The advice I still have now though is whatever you do, make sure you're learning from really, really smart people. But the big company thing, I don't know, it's changing so fast. But for me it was great to have the perspective of what big companies need as far as software and data networking and all the stuff I made all that money in in the venture capital business was in part informed by the market. The end user view I had from my eight years at.
