Welcome To The Silicon Valley Start-Up Life

Is it all you dreamed it would be?

Ben Rogojan
8 min readJul 24, 2019
silicon valley start up satire
Photo by Hardik Pandya on Unsplash

You did it! You landed a position as a software engineer for a Silicon Valley start-up. You can’t help but have a pop in your step and a twinkle in your eye.

You fought your way through all the complex interviews and negotiated yourself an amazing salary. Honestly, for your first job ever, it’s way more than you had ever thought you could make.

This is the place where people like Larry Ellison and Reid Hoffman planted their billion-dollar companies and now it is time for you to get your piece!

You landed in SFO an hour ago and you have already seen 4 Waymo cars and overheard a few phone calls with people using words like burn-rate and mentioning 50 million dollar as if it were nothing.

It’s all exciting and a little overwhelming considering you came from a smaller town in middle America where things were a little bit slower. But that’s not going to stop you!

Rent And Housing

Your start-up is well funded and they set you up with a leasing consultant to help you find a place that is just right for you! Being 22 years-old you know you want to live in the city. You’re young and you want to be where the action is after all.

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Ben Rogojan

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