Optimism Shapes Reality - by Alexandr Wang

How to go at warp speed

Optimism Shapes Reality How to go at warp speed Alexandr Wang May 30, 2022 525 56 Share I sent this memo to the Scale AI team back in 2019. At the time, I viscerally remember the magical feeling that we were going at warp speed, and I didn’t want that to go away. This memo was my manifesto to continuing warp speed. I hope it’s helpful to anybody who wants to make a big dent on the world. When candidates ask what keeps me up at night, my answer is the fear that we lose the high-alpha execution of a startup and slow to the pace of a big company. The goal is that the N th employee is able to be j

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