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"…If you've read this, if you have any experience, if you work around Big Tech, if you'd like to add to this conversation, please do so. Thanks for listening.…"
"…Adam, thank you for sharing this article. It makes me feel normal in a lot of ways to read it and to hear your thoughts. Because I was in the Bay Area when the public sort of got the big buzz about what was emerging as big tech. It was in the mid ninety s and things started getting crazy.…"
"…All of these companies, we're talking about chat GPT's adoption to 100 million users in record time, but nobody's talking about how many employees are there at OpenAI and that being the metric of its success as a company, right? So I think this whole thesis that tech measures success based on how many employees it has is just plainly incorrect to anybody who's in technology.…"
"…I think the ideas that are coming out of Silicon Valley are good, and I hope that this will create what's happening now will create a situation where we're more careful and not investing in things like these crazy people. I mean, you had crazy people saying and doing these things like Elizabeth Holmes, and theranos people are going to be more careful about what they invest in. So I think that's a good thing.…"
"…Adam, I understand what the authors are going after and I don't necessarily disagree with the entire premise. But like Arish, I have a few issues, one of which is citing the death based on these layoffs alone. And I don't necessarily think that that's the case. And I'm saying that based on my experience within tech companies and startups. And I worked one of my first startups that I worked at survived the.com bubble and we did not do so without a lot of hiccups and layoffs.…"
"…I'm also none of the experts. However, I do like to opine on everything. So there you go. The disclaimer has been disclaimed. I think the Big tech exceptionalism is seeing its moment of transformation, right? Because we are so used to the J curve where it grows steadily and then it explodes and then it has to keep exploding. And one of my favorite, and I'm stuck on this, I say this every single time, this is such a vivid metaphor.…"
"…And then there are those which are good to have. My life will continue even if I don't buy your stuff. So it's something on those lines that essential staff are those which will be retained, notwithstanding the market fluctuations and situations which are beyond people's control because the company has to keep functioning. On the flip side, the good to have are laid off. And it's unfortunate, it's unfair.…"
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