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A tale as old as time, and unrelated to AI The biggest reason people leave Big Tech, taking an (at least temp) paycut for a startup is because they feel under-utilized / working on trivial stuff. “You could build stuff that lives up to your potential” is how most are recruited
Zara Zhang@zarazhangruiAug 23
There’s a phenomenon where talented individuals can achieve 10x their potential thanks to AI when working on their own thing But when the same individual is put into a large organization, they at most increase their potential by 20% (and sometimes it’s even decreased) This is why I’m seeing more and more talented people leave large companies. (The only exceptions are probably top AI labs like OpenAI/Anthropic)
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