At the risk of derailing the post, I have a relevant question for the Hacker News hivemind: how would someone like me get this job? (i.e. Andy Rubin's former po

At the risk of derailing the post, I have a relevant question for the Hacker News hivemind: how would someone like me get this job? (i.e. Andy Rubin's former position) I've got a Ph.D. in autonomous robotics from the best place in Australia to have earned one. I started a consumer robotics company that exploded rapidly in a cloud of useful lessons learned. I then moved into product development consulting in order to understand the full product development lifecycle. And I'm now also the CTO of a small startup building an OS for if-this-then-that (and more) control of hardware and software devices, initially targeting Escape Room developers. On the other hand, I'm only 31, and given how long I spent in academia, my paid employment experience is only about five years, including a 20-month post-doc. My experience isn't all that atypical. I've met plenty of equally ambitious and credentialled people, most of them entrepreneurs too. Imagining that this sort of role is the ideal end-game for people like me, what should we do now/next/later? I spend a lot of time looking at the history of people I admire and might want to emulate, and in almost all cases there seems to be a launching point where they make an enormous leap into an amazing role. I can't help but assume someone noticed them and plucked them out of obscurity (e.g. I'd not heard of Danger, or even Android before it was acquired) and into a high-level role. So the big question then - how to get noticed? Paraphrasing Bill Watterson, how do I find the right place to hang-out so that I'm already there when the right time comes along?