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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Orcas Island, WA
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    1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26

      'Failing up' is one of those well-known-to-insiders Silicon Valley concepts. Past a certain point in your career trajectory (not that I've experienced it), you reach escape velocity, and the gravitational rules of accountability no longer apply.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/technology/sexual-harassment-google.html …

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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26

      Completely screw up a product or business due to your own demonstrable mediocrity, and despite your illustrious pedigree? Up you go.... Commit egregious acts of sexual harassment in a company that claims to care about it. Here's your unvested stock on the way out...

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26

      There's a certain class of Silicon Valley denizen (and I could mention a few from Facebook) who are at least somewhat incompetent. But there they flit, impervious to the laws of career physics, upwards from one failure to another, until they land in some professional Valhalla....

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        2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26

          ...of a cushy VC post, or just boutique (and usually scattershot) angel investing, while posting Instagram photos of a custom-built house in a Valley hood where some junior hires choose to live at work or in parked RVs because they can't afford to live there otherwise.

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26

          If this country ever really gets to the point of class revolt, it'll be precisely because the elite class openly (rather than covertly) considers itself above reproach or the law. That class already socializes losses and privatizes gains and calls it governance.

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        2. Trevor McKendrick‏Verified account @TrevMcKendrick Oct 26
          Replying to @antoniogm

          Why does this happen? Whatever next group they join doesn’t actually know how bad they are?

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26
          Replying to @TrevMcKendrick

          I really don't know, since I've only brushed up against this stratum. Is everyone in on the scam? Does the hiring party just engage in rank pseudo-nepotism? Or is success just largely unmeasurable, and some narrative gets written that excludes accountability?

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        4. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26
          Replying to @antoniogm @TrevMcKendrick

          Having been somewhat involved in hiring loops--FB, startups, etc.--it seems getting honest and representative backchannel feedback on people is hard. Part of that might be that most people are probably in one of three groups: incompetent, OK, and very good (but abrasive).

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        5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26
          Replying to @antoniogm @TrevMcKendrick

          The incompetent but glib (and who fit a certain profile) can talk their way out of it. The OK stay on a median track. And then the actually effective usually really pleased or pissed off various sets of people. Collecting the data that permits triage is hard.

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        2. Jordan Rice‏ @1jrice Oct 26
          Replying to @antoniogm

          This is not unique to SV, and I don’t think SV gets credit for its inception either.

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26
          Replying to @1jrice

          Just like Elon re-invented the subway and called it innovation, Silicon Valley has re-invented in-group nepotism, and thinks they're being cool.

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        2. Rational Bot‏ @Rationalbot Oct 26
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          The executive recruiter Valkyries sweep up the fallen into the swanky offices of Valhalla Venture Capital, where they can feast and drink fine champagne until the day of the great battle against the SEC that will end their world.

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        1. Tom Chen‏ @TommayC Oct 27
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          Don’t forget the tremendous ego.

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        1. Mark Trefgarne‏ @trefgarne Oct 27
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          Once senior enough the peer group becomes small and influential enough that your key performance metric shifts from actual execution to maintaining those peer relationships. By that criteria, these people are likely far from incompetent.

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