I recently read an article which was discussing which tech giants gave birth to the most successful startup founders. This interested me because of my background of technology where I have been application programming, building computers, and setting up mine and my friends networks. Tech companies, as far as right now, are extremely volatile companies that can lose you a bunch of money, or make you a boat load. The full article can be found here.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are all large companies that continuously compete to draw the top talent in every group of bright tech minds. Many of those that are recruited later go on to trade cushy jobs for the risk-taking life of a small business owner. As the tech giants compete with each other for talent, they also have to compete with these brilliant minds wishing to go elsewhere and start up a competitor.
Thus far out of these large tech companies, Google has the most funds raised by founders who come from their company at $309.88 million. This doesn't mean that this is the best measurement of success however, so we have to look at the other companies overall and decide what the best measure of success is for you. Yahoo has the most startup founders coming from their ranks and while they make less they point to the corporate atmosphere at Yahoo! for enabling them to be as successful as they are.
Overall these tech giants will always have to deal with the threat of these employees deciding to go take their services elsewhere. For those of you who are interested in starting a tech startup just go to one of these corporations with a little money and a lot of opportunity, and you'll probably end up with a tech professional.
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