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In short: If you are successful, you are remarkable!!! and I agree with vaksel completely: it sounds like a slave driven environment.
by ujjwalg 17y ago
In short: If you are successful, you are remarkable!!!
and I agree with vaksel completely: it sounds like a slave driven environment.
- Periodic 17y agoSlave labor can accomplish some amazing things. Almost every ancient wonder was created by slaves, and they stand out as colossal (pun intended) compared to other structures of the time. Some people are slaves by force, others by addiction, others by ambition. Some people thrive under that sort of pressure, others break down. I'm not sure where I'd stand. Also, there does tend to be a huge survivor bias in talking about startups. I suppose it's much easier to talk about the few successes than the many many failures.
- unalone 17y agoDid you read the article? It mentions how many different things he's tried and how much he's been criticized for his many failings. He's remarkable because he was willing to change his company and himself again and again till it worked.
- ujjwalg 17y agoI am definitely not trying to undermine what he has done. However, the article gist IMO is that when things were not going well, everyone was blaming him and finally when things are falling in place, everyone is giving credit to him. If facebook wont have grown the way it has in the last six months, the same people, who are identifying what he did as remarkable leadership qualities probably would be saying the exact opposite. So, in short, remarkable is proportional to how successful you have been.