I sup­pose you could call Ooga Labs a con­glom­er­ate of start-ups. On their ‘About’ page they give a com­pelling argu­ment to join their com­pany, but more entic­ing is the open let­ter from their CEO implor­ing every­one to avoid the pres­tige (hype?) of big com­pa­nies and do some­thing entre­pre­neur­ial.

So you’re going to take a cube job[…]?

C’mon! Do you want spend all of your life wear­ing mod­est habits of char­coal grey, dri­ving your Volvo on the salty roads of the drab East Coast, pay­ing 50% of your earn­ings to taxes, and hang­ing out with nar­row minded peo­ple, con­grat­u­lat­ing your­selves on improv­ing a fea­ture of a wid­get of ver­sion 12.1b.4 of some soft­ware, or maybe improv­ing the finan­cial return of some rich bald dude in Green­wich, CT by 0.2% above the S&P Index?

Has no one taken you aside and said, “Wait! You’re about to waste 10 years of your life fig­ur­ing out the path you chose out of col­lege is crap!”