--- title: How I Made Millions by Getting Fired | daily.dev description: Before this super cool startup, I worked a series of big corporate jobs and had managed to sell my soul several times over. After a while I got really tired of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-made-millions-by-getting-fired-nccjop3ac twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I Made Millions by Getting Fired | daily.dev og:description: Before this super cool startup, I worked a series of big corporate jobs and had managed to sell my soul several times over. After a while I got really tired of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-made-millions-by-getting-fired-nccjop3ac og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nCCJop3Ac.png og:image:alt: How I Made Millions by Getting Fired og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I Made Millions by Getting Fired **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · 3 min read · 19 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary Before this super cool startup, I worked a series of big corporate jobs and had managed to sell my soul several times over. After a while I got really tired of playing political games with officemates, and I really wanted to do something more impactful with my life. The startup was great for several years, but I frequently found myself wishing I could make it full-time with my own company. Unfortunately I waited too long, and ultimately got fired. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@maplesyurp** · 2 upvotes > very interesting,but i want to know how you got fired that made do this **@rahxul** · 1 upvotes > You can only make millions when you want a revenge from the company when ggetting fired. Amazing Post. **@dubesar** · 1 upvotes > Always great to hear from people starting something of their own. **@cire** · 0 upvotes > Inspired Post. **@pabs124** · 0 upvotes > Very Inspiring!! --- Tags: [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-made-millions-by-getting-fired-nccjop3ac) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How I Made Millions by Getting Fired","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-made-millions-by-getting-fired-nccjop3ac","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-made-millions-by-getting-fired-nccjop3ac"},"datePublished":"2020-11-05T04:36:50.675Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T07:25:25.702Z","description":"Before this super cool startup, I worked a series of big corporate jobs and had managed to sell my soul several times over. 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Amazing Post.","datePublished":"2020-11-05T10:15:44.813Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nCCJop3Ac#c-Ijs_AC9OT","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rahul","url":"https://daily.dev/rahxul","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--w_EB7y0c--/f_auto,q_auto/v1/avatars/avatar_UA2asvbfX"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Always great to hear from people starting something of their own.","datePublished":"2020-11-05T11:20:52.953Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nCCJop3Ac#c-5KF_EgFkG","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarvesh Dubey","url":"https://daily.dev/dubesar","image":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/38752758?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Inspired Post.","datePublished":"2020-11-05T10:54:06.517Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nCCJop3Ac#c-5MOS9fbJ2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"cire","url":"https://daily.dev/cire","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/36622239?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Very Inspiring!!","datePublished":"2020-11-05T13:33:18.313Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nCCJop3Ac#c-dX33eHoyL","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"sahil pabby","url":"https://daily.dev/pabs124","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14Giqh4019Tcv0_rSzcTLx2OcDdP-sw-Mxs6V0ShDEA=s100"}}]} ```