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