alt Hacker News> Turns out for most people, there's not much better to do during your 9 to 5 than solving problems for half a million a year.
Lol. I don't know I was talking with a guy yesterday who left a FAANG clearing 1.4 million / yr who's now running his own successful startup. My sample is successful founders backed by top tier VCs or exited founders who have done much better than FAANG. If you can't do more you stick around the FAANG, those who can go and do it.
You're talking about what happens to engineers who decide they want to be small business owners rather than engineers. That's orthogonal to this thread about where engineers with the best technical skills end up.