Re:What If Elon Musk Worked in Finance
by partingshots on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:17PM
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This entire post was just to highlight that his wife went to Harvard.
All jokes aside, I think it’s a meaningful question to think about in terms of all the potential that has been lost to the financial industry. Though, if say, these smart people had gone to Google instead, would that have made any real difference?
Re:What If Elon Musk Worked in Finance
by rpkoven on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:30PM
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I think being in the Stanford engineering ecosystem has been a positive funnel into starting a tech company. Whereas in NYC it’s more likely you’d get recruited by a finance company.
All jokes aside, I think it’s a meaningful question to think about in terms of all the potential that has been lost to the financial industry. Though, if say, these smart people had gone to Google instead, would that have made any real difference?