Tech entrepreneur says recent college grads should pay $50k a year to work at preferred places

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by slappywhyte

32 comments

  1. Stop giving attention to nobodys

    They’re trying to bait headlines

  4. If they couldn’t fire me or lay me off after a couple years, I might pay for that. One of the worst things I get sick of is making a good wage for a little while and then being laid off for a long while unable to find new work. I lose at least $50K each time I’m unemployed.
    Let me plan the next 20 years with my job and I could be confident in making some solid investments to compensate.

  5. Not just work for free but to have to pay your employer to work ..

    What does billionaires smokes nowadays

  7. Did he say where they can get the 50K to pay to work at preferred places?

  9. If your name is Zuckerberg or Gates, this is great advice. $50K to them is nothing.

    This is how you advance within the Plutocracy and get to the top of the pack. The pack that already controls everything.

  10. Don’t listen to morons. Guys like this you should literally just ignore. Let them talk their shit. Tune it out.

  13. If you have to pay them to work their they really do not value your services. You’re not going to advance up the ladder like they promise. It’s like an unpaid intern but worse. Not valuable.

  14. Only a tech bro would say this. A reinvention of indentured servitude.

  15. When there’s no consequences for being a rich insufferable ass…this comes out of their mouth

  16. As off-putting as it sounds, the advice is good advice if it is even possible.

    The best thing I did for my career was sheer luck, as I moved abroad and met other Americans who happened to be execs. I did some consulting projects for them and they became my mentors. What I learned from them and the network I built from them; in hindsight, it would definitely be worth paying money for.

    When I returned to the US, I considered applying for my MBA. I decided to sit in classes with my friend who was doing his MBA at UCLA. I realized that I got to see and work on the deals and projects that MBA students were reading case studies on. Launching in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, growing a team, digital transformations, and other stuff. I decided not to pay almost $90k a year for the MBA, but to go back abroad, learn, and gain experience that way.

    I would pay $50k to work a year in R&D for OpenAI or Nvidia right now. I’d likely make that money back before that year would even be complete.

  17. Am convinced. Now who is going to pay me $50K to work for me? Any takers?

  18. I hear that’s what some new arrivals are doing in Canada.

    Offering part of their pay to the HR person to get hired !!

    This world is fucking nuts

  20. Hah, Academia has been using this model for a long time! In many fields a long PhD and subsequent post doctoral experiences are needed to land a faculty job. Considering the pay gap between industry and academia, essentially young scientists/engineers are “paying” for the opportunity to land a future academia job.

  22. Move over Peter Theil and those stupid VCs, we don’t need your funding. We have “intern funded startups”… what an Idea. I think I’m gonna start an LLC and poach college kids to pay me $1000 each for them to stare at their computer.

  23. lol, what a moron. Just a straight up degenerate out of touch junk salesman.

  24. I’m sure my food, housing, and student loan money will come from somewhere…

  27. This is just the unpaid internship problem (but 50,000x worse) where the only people who can take unpaid internships are those whose living expenses are subsidized by their family at the beginning of their career which tends to limit these opportunities to the affluent.

  29. Fact is, on the job is where most people learn their jobs. Not college

    So if you’re going to spend $50k/yr on learning a job…..

  32. It’s a ridiculous idea of course.

    Call me crazy, if I knew then what I know now, I would have done that over college. I also had the luxury of parents who would allow me to live with them.

    There is nothing that will make you more competitive and impactful than working with “the best”.

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