The one secret to staying in that Politburo is create one more breadline, and you get to stay. When you join a bigger company, you're gonna learn a set of skills that are very company specific. A lot of the things that made that work were things that actually don't transfer anywhere else.
“the one secret is to to staying in that pull up bureau is create one more breadline, and you get to stay.”
the one secret is to to staying in that pull up bureau is create one more breadline, and you get to stay. And it was like this person tells me this, and, it's, there's a lot of implications in that. So, you know, one one implication that is, when when you join a bigger company, you're gonna learn a set of skills that are very company specific. Specific. And there's there's nothing really that wrong about it. I mean, it's the the if I think about, like, I had a good run at at at Google, like, a lot of it but a lot of the things that made that work were things that, like, actually don't transfer anywhere else. Like, it's very specific,
Why this clip
Reveals a cynical but insightful truth about big tech career strategy - creating bureaucracy to maintain relevance. Then connects it to the broader career consequence of learning non-transferable skills. The Politburo reference adds political intrigue.
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The people inside Google Inc look out at Silicon Valley Inc and say, 'Look at these people running around with their heads cut off. They're putting three coffee shops in the same corner. Why do they do that? They should have a meeting, one coffee shop.' The people in Silicon Valley Inc look up at Google and they look like they're in the Politburo.
1:24 - 28s · Business Mechanics
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