Startup Journey 0000 | To Join or Not To Join
(the post is automatically translated by AI) In early 2026, I left my senior software engineer position at a large tech company to join a startup as a tech lead. Still figuring out both the technical and managerial sides, I’m hoping this series of journal entries will help me look back years later and see how I’ve grown. In early 2025, a former lab senior — also a co-founder from our first startup attempt — reached out again with an invitation to build something together. At that point, I hadn’t been a senior engineer for very long, and my risk tolerance was fairly low. So I declined. ...