Friedberg

The majority do not have the wherewithal, the resiliency, the confidence, the communication skills to operate in a business environment. Period, full stop.

Yeah, no, people do hire based on that. They always did in sales, like the sales department, you wanted military people want to discipline because it's a numbers game, you have to just grind it out. But I do think like, even for what people don't realize is, when everybody went home for COVID.

Yeah, no, people do hire based on that. They always did in sales, like the sales department, you wanted military people want to discipline because it's a numbers game, you have to just grind it out. But I do think like, even for what people don't realize is, when everybody went home for COVID.

managers learned how to manage remote workers once they figured out I can manage a remote worker dealing with somebody who has too much anxiety to come to work today or be in a meeting and told they did a job and like you need to buck up and do a better job like people will quit on the spot People will start crying.

managers learned how to manage remote workers once they figured out I can manage a remote worker dealing with somebody who has too much anxiety to come to work today or be in a meeting and told they did a job and like you need to buck up and do a better job like people will quit on the spot People will start crying.

People will drop off the Zoom because there's too much anxiety to be told you did a bad job. Now you tell that to somebody who's working in India or South America or Portugal or Manila, hey, this is not the standard at which we operate. They're like, can you tell me how to do better? Is there is let me go look online, I'll go find some way to do my job better.

People will drop off the Zoom because there's too much anxiety to be told you did a bad job. Now you tell that to somebody who's working in India or South America or Portugal or Manila, hey, this is not the standard at which we operate. They're like, can you tell me how to do better? Is there is let me go look online, I'll go find some way to do my job better.

Thank you for letting me know that I could do better on my job. This generation can't handle even the modest amount of I shouldn't say all of them, but a large percentage of them have so much anxiety, they cannot operate in the workplace.

Thank you for letting me know that I could do better on my job. This generation can't handle even the modest amount of I shouldn't say all of them, but a large percentage of them have so much anxiety, they cannot operate in the workplace.

I do think some number will rise to the occasion. I think it's really good advice. The other advice, I'll just tell you what people do practically in the real world.

I do think some number will rise to the occasion. I think it's really good advice. The other advice, I'll just tell you what people do practically in the real world.

hire three people, expect that one's going to be fired in the first six weeks because they present well in an interview, but they're going to have a panic attack or they're just going to be, don't have the work ethic to be successful in an intense field like venture capital or a venture-backed startup.

hire three people, expect that one's going to be fired in the first six weeks because they present well in an interview, but they're going to have a panic attack or they're just going to be, don't have the work ethic to be successful in an intense field like venture capital or a venture-backed startup.

So, and then one will leave because they've got rich parents and they don't need to have the stress of the job or whatever. And then whoever's left, That's the winner. And so that's how people are approaching this now, is hiring people on project basis. Let's see them do the work. Let's see if they can maintain the intensity.

So, and then one will leave because they've got rich parents and they don't need to have the stress of the job or whatever. And then whoever's left, That's the winner. And so that's how people are approaching this now, is hiring people on project basis. Let's see them do the work. Let's see if they can maintain the intensity.

And that's really is like, if you weren't allowed, if you were monitored and helicopter parented, and you didn't go to the store on your own, and you didn't get lost, and you didn't have somebody steal your money, or you didn't get in a fight in the schoolyard, or you didn't play tag and You know, didn't get picked for dodgeball. You got smashed in dodgeball and they bullied you.

And that's really is like, if you weren't allowed, if you were monitored and helicopter parented, and you didn't go to the store on your own, and you didn't get lost, and you didn't have somebody steal your money, or you didn't get in a fight in the schoolyard, or you didn't play tag and You know, didn't get picked for dodgeball. You got smashed in dodgeball and they bullied you.

If you didn't have all those experiences that are formative, yeah, you're not going to survive in the corporate world. There's no time. There's no time to teach you how to, you know, get smashed in the face, you know, with a dodgeball. You know, that should have happened in 12 years old. It's going to be tough for them. I think you're doing God's work trying to get them back on track.

If you didn't have all those experiences that are formative, yeah, you're not going to survive in the corporate world. There's no time. There's no time to teach you how to, you know, get smashed in the face, you know, with a dodgeball. You know, that should have happened in 12 years old. It's going to be tough for them. I think you're doing God's work trying to get them back on track.

Yeah, I'd like to see your project work. You know, I see at NYU or Florida, I see any Ivy League school degree or something like that. You're going to think, oh my God, this person's going to come here and start a union, a movement. You know, they're going to distract everybody. This is why Coinbase and other folks are just saying, we're here for this purpose.