On my way to attending an Endeavor Summit this summer, I had the following conversation with a customs officer upon arriving in the U.S.:
Immigration officer: What do you do for a living? Me: I work at a startup, and I’m here to meet people from my industry. Immigration officer: Ok. How long have you been at your current job? Me: We started around five years ago. Immigration officer: Five years! And you still call yourself a startup?!
This interaction has stayed with me because it seems to me to be a great example of the discrepancy between the reality distortion field that is Silicon Valley — and the reality almost everywhere else. Even the immigration officer at the San Francisco airport was of the opinion that five years is too long for a company to consider itself startup.
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