2/ If you don't fit at a company, you should leave. If they don't compensate you well, you should leave. But I'm talking about something else... ...the pervasive startup culture and hysteria that corrodes fucking everything.
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3/ How are you supposed to build stable, durable teams in such an environment? How are you supposed to plan? How can you take on problems which require a long-term perspective with the repressive homogeneity of short-term expectations?
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4/ I have no idea. But, most of the coffeeshop and wework conversations with strangers I've had since moving to Silicon Valley are the same scene acted out over and over again: a jargon-laden elevator pitch followed by how they're going to get acquired in 9 months.
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5/ Nothing prepared me for how much HBO's show matches the un-reality. A few choice questions and you find out just how little so many people out here care about the problem they claim to solve... ...because the actual problem they want to solve is an exit. [end of rant]
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Yeah, true story. A big chunk of startups are working on nothing but exit optimization.
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Weird. The first in the thread disappeared. It was about how this mindset infects every data scientist I know. They expect fast exit or leave quickly. Exactly your reply.
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