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I'm a member of the GV team, and one of those who helps run the workshop series. In many cases, workshops are available only to employees of the portfolio because it supports more …

Indeed. I had originally left off the ending, but a few people who previewed the essay told me they showed it to others (who don't know me), and they said they weren't sure if I wa…

It wasn't officially recorded, although audience members might have captured some of it. I wish it had been: I can only really give this talk once. As an aside, if you're not famil…

Jason Goldman helped build Google and Twitter into what they are today — but few outside of tech's inner circle know his name. On shunning the spotlight in a star-obsessed industry…

(Author here.) I've long wanted to write a follow-up piece addressing exactly these questions, but haven't gotten around to it. First, find a PM to talk to, especially one you admi…

No brain teasers. Good analytical questions are open-ended, fuzzy, and don't have "right" or "trick" answers. I want to test problem-solving abilities, not interview research and m…

(Essay author here...) Excellent additions, "ability to deal with ambiguity" is a critical skill for PMs.

If institutions like UCLA and UCSF want to be world leaders, they need to pay top dollar to attract the best surgical talent. That's just reality. P.S. I never said my child was he…

I see a seven-figure salary next to the name of a surgeon who's saved my child's life on three occasions. Yeah, that's about right.

-- (Rare?) I never applied, but was hired anyway! Me. I came in 4+ years ago by way of an acquisition. Note that "never applied" doesn't equate with "never interviewed" - we all ha…

That's like "training" a cyclist to use a helmet by smacking them in the head.

I also recommend A.K. Dewdney's The Planiverse, published in 1984. It tells the story of computer science students who communicate with denizens of a 2D world. The diagrams and gra…