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This is a *critical* story but still... from a plot perspective, this only works for childish plots like that for power rangers. "I'm a firefighter, I fight fires but one day want to be a VC." on the other hand is "moving up in the world"

All companies are part of a growth story due to expectations from shareholders. Tech companies often have a lot of growth expectations so have to generate a lot of "compelling" even at the cost of "coherency" (Theranos/Magic Leap)

Other companies still need to grow as well, but the growth expectations are smaller. The story doesn't have to have 100 twists that logically resolve and win as a horror/drama/comedy/romance hybrid.

This can be visualized like the train "Snowpiercer". The "world" has to move. If it stops it dies.

Each company has a bunch of people betting on it to reach certain milestones at certain times. If the expectations are met, the story feels coherent (ppl inside the company are happy), otherwise the entire system is "whipped" to urge it to go faster.

The whipping urges the company to strive for a more powerful story which in turn requires each sub-system to cascade forwards its individual stories. This naturally incentivizes critical functions to minimize to a bare minimum. this is going "lean" for max acceleration.

younger people tend to be more compelling b/c they naturally have this desire to climb as high as they can. the danger for them is joining a cult, a high tower that is not built properly and collapses. (think of a cult as psychic architecture) (cult in the negative sense)

there is lack of "coherency" in the story. The plans to build the tower of babel were "Just stack new bricks on the bottom bricks."