Tom Preston-Werner: How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
I was going to be faced with a choice sooner than I had anticipated. I could either sign on as a Microsoft employee or quit and go GitHub full time…In the end, just as Indiana Jones could never turn down the opportunity to search for the Holy Grail, I could no less turn down the chance to work for myself on something I truly love, no matter how safe the alternative might be. When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say “wow, that was an adventure,” not “wow, I sure felt safe. (via 37 signals)
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k.html
