'patio11 has been at Stripe for 2 1/2 years and was solo for many years preceding. I think his reputation is pretty solid, and have a hard time imagining how being fully employed at Stripe for the past couple of years should now make his past advice require seasoning. Have conditions changed so much recently? Would you care to expand on what you personally are concerned about (as opposed to vague aspersions)?
Prior to being a full-time employee at Stripe patio11 and tptacek tried to launch a startup [unsuccessfully].
Prior to that patio11 had been running a Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder.
Corporate Consulting - is a small part of patio11 career. He managed to burn himself on that consulting path. If you want to get similar result - you are welcome to follow patio11 advice.
He was, at one time, doing consulting for $20k-$30k a week for multi-week gigs. I can’t remember what his highest publicly stated billed rate was, but he has been fairly open and detailed about this.
I think he was in the process of jacking up his rates to $50k a week, but then he mysteriously stopped consulting. I’m curious about why. He has alluded to it before, but he was was very circumspect about the whole issue/experience.
Please take his [no doubt interesting] recommendations about how to do consulting -- with a grain of salt.