Don't join a startup just because you feel, the corporate life looks boring and you're not moving. You will be surprised, startups also have politics, manager drama and pointless meetings. And for a long time, you won’t know whether the company is early, growing or running out of money. Your job description will change every few months and it will confuse you. You may be hired for marketing but will be asked to do cold calling and reply to customer support and you've to leave your ego in your closet before getting to work. Nobody will give you complete instructions because nobody has complete answers. You need high agency and low entitlement which means you must pick up problems that don’t may not belong to you. Choose the founders more carefully than you choose the startup. Watch how they behave when things go wrong, because things will go wrong. Choose a honest founder, they may share genuine and useful stuff online. And not the ones doing video reels. Join them because you want to learn how to think, build, sell like them. The greatest upside of working at a startup might not be the equity but the person you become while earning it. A startup is not a smaller corporate. It is a half built company where your job is to help finish building it while everything looks like a struggle. Choosing the right people you are willing to struggle with is your decision.