Betting on Unknown Unknowns - by Alexandr Wang
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How to be unrealistic and predict the future
This year, I’ve had the great luxury of spending time with Jeff Wilke, former CEO of Amazon Consumer. One of his greatest strengths is his willingness to bet on the future and embrace optimism. Out of that meta-learning, I wrote the following post for the Scale team earlier this year—I hope you enjoy. I got the 2nd shot of my Pfizer vaccine in May, a little more than 1 year after the United States went into a full lockdown. On the one hand, it felt like an incredibly long time, but the vaccine has come faster than anybody could have realistically imagined. The speed of the COVID vaccine is…
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