'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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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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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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...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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Replying to @alexqgb
Hold the phone. This seems like a non sequitur....BUT. I was actually just looking at this because the admit nurse that took my pulse the old school way thought my heartbeat might be slightly irregular, and I wanted to measure it myself.
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I'm just wondering how Vic G. will going to sell a $99 product with a $120/year subscription fee when Apple has built this same feature into the latest Watch
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Oh, I see. Yes, Mr. G there may well be an example of this (though I have no personal experience there).
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