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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post bonnie chin @bobawithbonnie Article See new posts Conversation Aditya Agarwal @adityaag The Fast Lane to Mediocrity 70 252 1.6K 383K Sometimes speed is just impatience disguised as ambition. Nobody in Silicon Valley cares what you did a decade ago. Even more so now, when a month in AI time can feel like years in SaaS time. This ecosystem runs on obsession with the future. It doesn’t matter if you started a company twenty years ago and took it public. If you’ve stopped building, you’re forgotten. There’s an egalitarianism here which I haven’t found anywhere else in the world. That quality is Silicon Valley’s superpower. But lately, I’ve watched it curdle into something destructive. The average tenure at startups keeps compressing. I see brilliant researchers cycling between labs every eighteen months, never staying long

@adityaag: The Fast Lane to Mediocrity Sometimes speed is just impatience disguised as ambition. Nobody in Silicon Valley cares what you did a decade ago. Even more so now, when a month in AI time can feel like years in SaaS time. This ecosystem runs on obsession with the future. It doesn’t matter if you started a company twenty years ago and took it public. If you’ve stopped building, you’re forgotten. There’s an egalitarianism here which I haven’t found anywhere else in the world. That quality is Silicon Valley’s superpower. But lately, I’ve watched it curdle into something destructive. The

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