> Now there are hundreds (thousands?) of large enterprises that slurp up ambitious individuals and put them in charge of important things. This is based on hea

> Now there are hundreds (thousands?) of large enterprises that slurp up ambitious individuals and put them in charge of important things. This is based on hearsay, but there's a fairly common sentiment surrounding certain big tech companies that they'll often hire highly skilled engineers to work on fairly mundane problems in order to restrict the available talent pool. Sometimes large companies will acqui-hire full teams just to avoid having to compete with them. Which is to say: I'm not sure that the allocation of talent is in an optimal configuration. But I'm also unsure how this hypothesis could be adequately falsified or measured.