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I was recruited as a junior executive into a large media corp earlier in my career, and I will never forget my manager's closing "sales pitch" at a bar in midto
by crmd 5y ago
I was recruited as a junior executive into a large media corp earlier in my career, and I will never forget my manager's closing "sales pitch" at a bar in midtown Manhattan: "Join us and become part of the group that shapes global culture. Where else are you going to go where you can have this kind of impact on society?"
It's an open question whether art influences society or vice versa, but I can tell you from firsthand experience that executives in show business have no doubt it's the former, and they revel in that power. It wasn't for me, I quit after a year.
- duxup 5y agoSales pitches... I mean I've joined places that were going to 'change the world'. They didn't ;) Not sure that means much.
- rkk3 5y agoThe difference between being put in charge of programming that is consumed by tens of millions and joining a no name startup...
- crmd 5y agoI felt something in media much darker than the stereotypical SV kumbaya-change-the-world thing. It was about loving that you have the power to influence how and what ordinary people thought about. Keep in mind this was before social media. Maybe this is how Facebook algorithm developers nowadays also think.