Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

I’m Jared, one of the partners at YC. When I joined YC, one of the things that I most wanted to do was to help make hiring and getting hired suck less. I have a business reason and a personal reason for this. The business reason is that YC's job is to help the startups we fund, and helping with hiring is one of the biggest things we can do. The personal reason is that before I joined YC, I did a lot of hiring for my startup, Scribd, and for me it was the most rewarding part of starting a company. Some of the people who joined us had life-changing experiences - they moved across the world, jump-started a new career, grew with the company and became leaders, or used their experience to start their own successful companies. I wanted to help more people have those experiences and not feel stuck in jobs where they don't have much impact. So, a few of us at YC have been building Work at a Startup ( https://www.workatastartup.com/ ), with the goal of making it easier