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That wasn’t my intended point. I want to be a profit center, not someone you keep busy because you can.
At Google, for example, I’d wanna work on search, ads, or data mining. But I wouldn’t wanna work on chat.
At Uber, I’d wanna work on the driver orchestration machinery, not on some opensource side project they have.
I find at startups it’s easier to get to work on the company’s main core thing. And that’s where I like to be.
If the whole company ultimately proves meaningless, that’s just life.
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That wasn’t my intended point. I want to be a profit center, not someone you keep busy because you can.
At Google, for example, I’d wanna work on search, ads, or data mining. But I wouldn’t wanna work on chat.
At Uber, I’d wanna work on the driver orchestration machinery, not on some opensource side project they have.
I find at startups it’s easier to get to work on the company’s main core thing. And that’s where I like to be.
If the whole company ultimately proves meaningless, that’s just life.