Elad Gil
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6,339 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 10 Sep
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Strikes me as being true in any endeavor.
You know, I used to work as a biologist and I think it's true in biology, I think it's true in technology, I think it's true in
Um, almost every field that I've seen is it's the people who work really hard do very well.
And then in startups, at least the thing I tended to forget for a while was just how important competitiveness or people who really wanted to compete and win mattered.
And sometimes people come across as really low key, but they still have that drive and that urge and they w they they want to be the ones who are the winners.
And so I think that matters.
And similarly that was kind of put aside for a little bit, at least at uh
from a societal perspective relative to companies.
No, that that's a really good framework.
And when I say competition, I don't mean necessarily with other companies, but it's almost like with whatever metric you set for yourself or whatever thing you want to win at or be the best at.
How do you think about that bottleneck in terms of product management that you mentioned or people who have good product instincts?
Because I was talking to uh one of the best known sort of tech public company CEOs.
And his view was that in all of Silicon Valley or in all of tech kind of globally, there's probably a few hundred at most great product people.
Do you think that's true?
Or do you think there's a broader swath of people who are very capable at it?
And then how do you find those people?
Because I think that's actually a very rare skill set in terms of the people who are, you know, just like there's a 10x engineer, there's 10x product insights, it feels.
uh uh to your point, show up in um hires particularly around product.
So, uh, or product and design.
So one sort of later stage AI company I'm involved with, they were doing a search for somebody to run product and somebody to run design.
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