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Ask HN: How to transition from a failed startup back into the corporate world?

12 points by Freddie111 ↗ HN
80% of startups fail, and so did mine. I consciously took some monetary risks like founding capital and no salary for a while. I learned a ton on this adventure but now it's time to go back to a safe job with a decent salary at a (probably) mid-size or big company.

Did you find it hard to get back into the corporate world after being founding and running your own startup?

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atwood22
It was not really hard to adjust, but my experience made me attractive to other entrepreneur-gone-corporate people, so the group I landed it had a good, productivity-oriented mindset. The biggest issue, imo, with corporate work is everything is so slow. People don’t have the drive and impetus to empower productivity. Processes are designed to slow things down. A ship that’s hard to steer is hard to sink, as they saying goes. Maybe that’s a good corporate philosophy, but it makes boring work.