Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future
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Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future
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#2I don't understand the bias against working on Wall Street.
In fact, Wall Street is much more fun than a generic office park in Silicon Valley.
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#3I don't understand the bias against working on Wall Street. In fact, Wall Street is much more fun than a generic office park in Silicon Valley.
You also have a greater chance of making significantly more than your startup equity would ever be worth.
Disclosure: Left tech for Wall Street
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#4I don't understand the bias against working on Wall Street. In fact, Wall Street is much more fun than a generic office park in Silicon Valley.
If I was starting over I’d pursue Wall Street over Silicon Valley.
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#5There are a whole bunch of private videos in the playlist for "How to Build the Future" series. Why? Is it that the videos are just not ready yet?
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#6There are a whole bunch of private videos in the playlist for "How to Build the Future" series. Why? Is it that the videos are just not ready yet?
They're probably scheduled to be published.
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#7Sometimes, for people like me it's hard to keep track of who's who in tech royalty.
Here's a guide of some of their connections. (My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into.. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US. It just feels odd to me. Diversity hasn't reached these levels yet, I guess.)
Anne Wojcicki: CEO of 23andMe. Former part-time partner of Y Combinator, back then along with Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of Pinterest; and Joe Gebbia, co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/09/y...
Sergey Brin: co-founder of Google and formerly married to Anne.
Susan Wojcicki: Anne's sister, and CEO of Youtube, owned by Google.
Sam Altman: President of Y Combinator
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#8>I’ll always love people debating “Is it in your genes or is it your environment?” I’m like no! The whole beauty of it is that it’s both.
It would be fun hearing a debate between Anne and Susan about this.
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#9Sometimes, for people like me it's hard to keep track of who's who in tech royalty. Here's a guide of some of their connections. (My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into.. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US. It just feels odd to me. Diversity hasn't reached these l…
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#10I don't understand the bias against working on Wall Street. In fact, Wall Street is much more fun than a generic office park in Silicon Valley.
There has always been a perception amoung many techies and ents that "wall street" represented the old, entrenched, 'rent-seeking' capitolism, while SV style was 'changing the world', dispuptive, and somehow more egalitarian. It seems to mirror the political divide somewhat, with many younger more visionary types going for broke out west, and the more risk adverse finding a reliable income in finance. Its a matter of perspective as much as philosophy.