I was at dinner with a bunch of tech people in their 20s last week, and ever since, I’ve been playing around with this idea of “generational tailwinds.” It’s still half-baked, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway:
I was lucky to begin my startup career in 2009 on the heels
Ashley Mayerx.comI was at dinner with a bunch of tech people in their 20s last week, and ever since, I’ve been playing around with this idea of “generational tailwinds.” It’s still half-baked, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway: I was lucky to begin my startup career in 2009 on the heels
@rsg “There is a comfortable myth among naive outsiders that everything here is a crap shoot and people like my friends and I just keep getting lucky lots of times in a row. There are probably lots of psychological reasons they need to believe this.” @JTLonsdale https://t.co/AzJcenmJq9
The degree of path dependence in careers is crazy. A little luck early on leads to an accumulation of network / resources / learning in a way that’s hard to believe until you see it.
Jack Altmanx.com