What type of company/opportunity is right for you?

use charlie munger’s rules (warren buffett’s partner)
1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself
2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire
3) Work only with people you enjoy

If you want to make a difference in the for-profit world, avoid activities that make money through (i) zero-sum games (ii) addiction (iii) a marketing-first approach. If you’ve cleared those filters, then ask (i) is this scalable? (ii) does it make people’s lives better in a significant way? (iii) are you good at this activity? — https://80000hours.org/2014/10/interview-holden-karnofsky-on-cause-selection/

if you just want to have a nice life and you want to work in tech: pick one of the potentially foundational companies, or an already foundational company with an excellent ceo (i.e. alphabet, facebook, amazon). or work at a big (likely) enterprise company and select based on work-life balance

if you just want to work at a cool company: it would be valuable to spend a week thinking about “what you are interested in?”, “what is valuable, what do you believe might be very valuable that most others aren’t working on now or going to start working on soon?”, and “what are you excellent at and likely to become even better at?”
read this: Do Great Things by Justin Rosenstein

if you want to make $1mm in 7 years: join the fastest growing breakout you can in a large or fast growing market (you should evaluate the company/market assuming that the product and target customers will look the same 5 years from now, just that they’ll be selling to more of them), or look into statistical arbitrage hedge fund jobs

if you want to make $10mm in 7 years: this is a hard goal to have expectations around. there aren’t easy to recommend options.

if you’re optimizing for learning and you don’t know what you want to learn: pick the company where you will have the best future manager (the one you most admire). see some questions for interviewing your future manager here