Someone asked what was the best way to get hired by a startup. I told him it was to start one and then hire himself. Then fire yourself. Learn from your mistakes. Don't get complacent. Take 3 months off to read textbooks. Sit in coffee shops in San Francisco and look agentic. Become a post-training expert. Human data. Whatever. Just do something that's legible. And do it well. Win a hackathon. Now do it again. Become a content creator. UGC is in. Stay technical. Or get technical. Fast. Projects on GitHub don't matter. Make a product. Ship it. Refine it. Show revenue streams. Network. Get people to know you. Have referrals ready. Get to know the founder on a personal level. Take them out to dinner. Fall in love. Slow burn. Then break up. Say it was mutual. They get the dog and the apartment. You get the job. But if you were ready to be hired by a startup. You wouldn't have asked in the first place.