> At the end of the 90th and beginning of the 00th ("dotcom bubble") it was a common saying that if as a programmer, when you are 30 or 40, you don't have a very successful company (and thus basically set for life), you basically failed in life;
This wasn't common anywhere except for maybe the Silicon Valley bubble.
The rest of the US and even the world could see that not having a very successful company of your own is to equal to being a failure.
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> At the end of the 90th and beginning of the 00th ("dotcom bubble") it was a common saying that if as a programmer, when you are 30 or 40, you don't have a very successful company (and thus basically set for life), you basically failed in life;
> This wasn't common anywhere except for maybe the Silicon Valley bubble.
This was a very common sentiment even in Germany at this time.
This wasn't common anywhere except for maybe the Silicon Valley bubble.
The rest of the US and even the world could see that not having a very successful company of your own is to equal to being a failure.