[ditonal]

I’m only excited to work on a product that’s my baby but by my definition , startups that I’m not la founder /exec of can’t offer that.

A stranger can’t tell me how to dress my baby. So if CEO overrides me on how my product looks it’s not my baby.

If you have a baby, you don’t hyper focus on just one aspect of raising it. But even the tiniest startups rarely let engineers do things like work on marketing and customer development, so it’s not my baby.

A baby can only be taken away from you in extreme circumstances of neglect. But a startup job can lay me off at any time so it’s not my baby.

For me the only real job that fulfills this desire is bootstrapped founder. Being a startup employee is more like being a nanny than a parent.