My current world view: for monster multiples you need someone who knows how to go 0 to 1, repeatedly. That's almost always only the founder. People after are incremental. If they weren't, they'd just be a founder. Hence why everything is done through acquisitions post-founder. So there's armies of engineers incrementally scaling and maintaining dollars. But not creating that wealth or growing it in a significant % way.
Not surprisingly, building really fast is not the silver bullet you'd think it is. It's all about what to build and how to distribute it. Otherwise bigcos/billionaires would have armies of engineers growing their net worth to epic scales.
SigFig | Principal Software Engineer | Full Time | Remote (US)
We're a FinTech committed to building financial solutions that are accessible and affordable to everyone. Currently we are focused on partnering with banks such as Wells Fargo, UBS, and Citizens Bank to serve consumers where they primarily are. We did start as a B2C company though and do still have a significant user base there as well.
For this team specifically we're building a product which is like Teladoc but for financial advice. Because of the complexity of financial advice and everything that goes into it there are a lot of opportunities to do first principles thinking on how things can be done especially given the "digital window" of remote.