This is something you don’t find any scalable and predictable strategy to get to. There seems to be no causality (let alone stable correlation) between you get

This is something you don’t find any scalable and predictable strategy to get to. There seems to be no causality (let alone stable correlation) between you getting this position and your education, years of experience etc etc. I guess the best bet as with startups would be to just maximize your chances by getting on board of anything you expect to rapidly grow soon (and you feel you’d be able to handle the growth). Be it a startup or a department in a big company where you feel you can make it.