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> but Vijaya had been in charge of legal and policy for a decade at a company that regularly has to tangle with nation state governments In charge of, but almo
by nomel 4y ago
> but Vijaya had been in charge of legal and policy for a decade at a company that regularly has to tangle with nation state governments
In charge of, but almost certainly not the DRI, or related talent, for any of that. Her direct experience is most certainly minimal, compared to the people actually doing that work. This assumes there's not significant corruption of course.
So the questions would be, will Elon see the value in those groups responsible, and will those groups stick around on their own? I imagine so.
- roughly 4y agoI can tell you emphatically that Vijaya indeed had a lot of day-to-day exposure to and involvement with policy, having seen her in action directly.
- nomel 4y agoI’m sure there was exposure and involvement, but I would find it incredibly hard to believe if the brute force of the work was not a group of lawyers, with that exposure and involvement being easily exchanged for another, or even more hands off, CEO.
- nomel 4y agoOr to put it another way, if a tech CEO is the lead for crafting foreign policy, something is very very wrong with the org.
- roughly 4y agoSo, Vijaya wasn’t the CEO. She was general council and head of policy. Here’s her Wikipedia page, if you’d like to brush up on any other basic demographic details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya_Gadde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya_Gadde
- nomel 4y agoOh jeeze, I had the wrong person in my head. My bad.