TEDx Speaker Says Work For Free

He says in a TedxCMU talk that he couldn’t find a job; after hundreds of applications the only two companies that had offered him a job were “a staging company whose only job requirements were have a pulse and be a chainsmoker…and the other company was a pyramid scheme.”

So he started working for free.

He says it’s great and has all sorts of advantages: you work “on stuff you actually care about” and there “are no dead ends.”