Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)

In my best year at Uber I made about like three hundred and twenty or three hundred and thirty thousand dollars in total compensation and When I quit my job I was actually thinking like I'm I am I crazy because I'm I'm leaving Especially in Europe, this is a lot of money in the table. This will be similar to something, you know, someone in a similar position would have made like five or six hundred K in in total in the US. But now I am making more in in compensation that I made at Uber.

And The difference is that now my composition, well, my earnings are keep going up as long as the newsletter is growing. So there's no theoretical cap on this. Of course there's an actual cap, there's churn. Growth is slowing over time, but it's very, very strange because I felt that I was in a really privileged position.

Just honestly making tons of money. doing an a job that I loved, and this was at Uber or or as a software engineer. And I'm now doing stuff that I love and Um In some strange way, I guess it even

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