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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 13
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      Matt Levine wrote this sentence but it rhymes heavily with a very pg thought: > The basic reason to work in finance is that, traditionally, it was the industry where you could get the most leverage on being smart.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-13/the-robots-will-take-your-bonus …

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 13
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      (The classic articulation of that thought was in this essay, although I'll pg wrote / spoke / etc about it in many other places, too. http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html  )

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 13
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      Incidentally, I think I read this for the first time in something like 2009, and it might have been the most important two sentences I read in my life. (You can reasonably assume my goal wasn't "getting rich" per se but it generalizes to a lot of goals.)pic.twitter.com/3vGU2OcvZU

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 13
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      That was essentially the internal design brief for my consultancy: "In scope: anything I can licitly do which acts as a multiplier on a firm's revenue line or enterprise value. Out of scope: everything else." (Ended up with the "For B2B SaaS companies" later.)

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        2. JT Booth‏ @jtbooth1021 Jan 13
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          Is there a reason you use "licit" over "legal" everywhere?

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 13
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          Replying to @jtbooth1021

          The "precise to the point of pedantry" part of my brain sees the word "legal" and replies "There are a great many legal things that you'd never consider doing and would be alarmed if anyone thought you capable of doing them."

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        2. Eric Vanular‏ @ericvanular Jan 13
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          How did you deal with performance improvements that weren't always immediately perceivable?

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 13
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          Replying to @ericvanular

          The true answer was "Virtually infinite number of gigs in the world but finite ability to deliver them sooooo maybe let other people specialize in delivering the ones that don't make economic sense for me to offer."

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        1. Brandon DuRette‏ @bdurette Jan 17
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          So... "Charge more."

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        2. JT Booth‏ @jtbooth1021 Jan 13
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          Replying to @patio11

          Trying to think of a justification for being any kind of consultant besides a "money go up" consultant and it's kind of hard. I guess if you mostly make money go up in a specific way, you might want to under-promise?

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        3. JT Booth‏ @jtbooth1021 Jan 13
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          Ah and probably the credibility barrier is lower. Proving that your eg. sound system setup drove revenue is hard, but proving it made good sounds isn't.

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        1. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh‏ @r2g2 Jan 13
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          Isn’t risk a factor too? Low in Matt’s description of the finance world, and very high for joining startups?

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