This thread really shows how unhinged the community is. Dude hired contract killers and ran the most prolific darkweb forum for whatever. He's not some martyr. He's just a bum.
I've been something like a Hardware T/PM for 10 years for big tech. Making hardware, managing hardware, budgeting and financing hardware, writing software to manage process, creating PMO, lots of 0 to 1 projects. If you have some big ambiguous difficult job to fill I'm interested.
> The GDPR has extra-territorial scope, which means that websites outside the EU that process data of people inside the EU are obligated to comply with the GDPR.
I see that site makes the same assertions about jurisdiction that the comments here are making. However, it provides no explanation for why the EU can actually claim that jurisdiction, which is my whole point. Why are they obligated? How does the EU have such authority?
I say it doesn’t, for the simple reason given upthread, and you have provided no evidence to the contrary.
One weird GDPR implication our team considered during initial implementation of our solution was US citizens traveling to Europe, and even people visiting embassies of EU countries in the US, would seemingly trigger all applicable constraints of the legislation.
Personally, I still view GDPR more akin to regulatory capture than actual consumer protections; although, I do admit, more than anything, the Internet needs more consumer protection.
Being older has its advantages. You have a lot more "common" sense, but not all older people do, some have kept emotional debt, trauma, various things that can hold them up from getting product market fit, leading teams and organizations, dealing with having a lot or not a lot of money, etc. If I recall, uncited, from my evening, later-in-life MBA program, the more successful startup founders/cofounders/etc are all in their late 30's and 40's. Weeds out the kids, you're serious. Staring at a seed round of VC's with life partners, spouses, kids, whatever you have in life that you're trying to maintain and help support, those are good things. VC that want to weed you out are definitely not worth it.
Leaving work to pursue a startup should only happen when you can prove well enough to VC's you're accreting revenues just barely worth investing in (to very worth investing in). If you're sane, I would wait until you can't move forward without some seed/VC and then look around for it- starting with people you know, and familiarize yourself with how funding/ownership/etc works.
You don't need to go through ycombinator, although its very worthwhile, you can just run a startup on the side or quit your job once its up and running.
If your startup is a unicorn, maybe wait a year before quitting your job, so the job market is ripping again when you fail :)
I feel like if you advertise this to the various "Mechanical Keyboard" communities they'd lose their shit in a positive way. r/mechanicalkeyboard is a main public one
