Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
It was a cycle of numbers, push, numbers, not good enough, “coaching”, push, change, commission, percentages, tick back to zero, rinse, repeat. There was no space for the human. No space for deep thinkers, for empathy, for art, for creativity, i.e. the things that I considered important.
Claire Simonis • Death of a Salesgirl
Risks to the trend
- LPs too slow to react, VCs lack incentives to admit limitations in current processes
- Poor quant performance
- Downturn in private markets
Katelyn Donnelly • Quant comes to Venture Capital
I think it can create a lot of energy in someone, precisely because, like a molecule searching for covalent bond, they're going to be looking for someone else to perform for, because they have that sense of insecurity and they don't know where they sit in the hierarchy. And they will need to find a way to validate their position.
Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
Be pragmatic about the preparation and thinking required before a technology project and the risk is not in being to shallow during analysis, but in missing dimensions
Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
Arguably, liberal individualism, social Darwinism, and free-market theory are transforms of one another, deriving their basic assumptions from the same atomistic and hierarchical worldview, all containing elitist principles (meritocracy, survival of the fittest, and plutocracy) and all with the consequent stratifications of race, gender, ethnicity,... See more
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
I believe the best way to describe this shift is as a shift from legible ambition to illegible ambition. The reason so many people cling to default metrics of success is that other people understand them. Legible ambition is a story that your parents can tell their friends. We fear that not having such legible ambition means we will be cast out of... See more