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Reconsidering Career Optionality - by Erik Torenberg
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In startups the biggest risk is not that you'll fail, it's that you won't get enough actual shots on goal to succeed
Reconsidering Career Optionality In startups the biggest risk is not that you'll fail, it's that you won't get enough actual shots on goal to succeed Erik Torenberg May 29, 2022 97 4 9 Share In a recent post , I described how the best scientific minds are stuck in academia, the best operators are stuck in large consulting firms (like McKinsey) and the best engineers are stuck at FAANG companies. One of the reasons they do this is because they don’t know what to do next . I don’t know what I’ll do with my life, so I’ll get a degree. I don’t know what I’ll do with my degree, so I’ll get a grad d
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