I have been informed that American devs really do earn that much, that 100k is just a normal salary.
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Depends on where you live (Albuquerque, NM is not equal to NY), but that’s roughly the annual salary of a professor at a tier 1 US university. Now, I doubt that any fintech dev has an equivalent amount of work to do and the necessity to live near the expensive campus. So the actual salary you need for a living with this type of job is 50-60k. Therefore, 300k startup capital for a team of 3 people is a lot even in the US.
I think they all live in California or Massachusetts or something.
Normal devs don't have access to VC. At the most, OpenSats grants.
Bad for them then 🤷🏻♂️ There’s plenty of great places to live in the US as a freelance dev without having to spend your monthly income for an organic croissant in Whole Foods 😂 Dallas TX, Phoenix AZ, Denver CO and many others…
Yeah. 🤷♀️
(Although those are all expensive now, but you could move to someplace like Tennessee.)
And let them throw snakes at you at the pentecost 🤣