Noam Segal: evaluation

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…Oh my God, what an interesting takeaway and part of this research. So I'm just looking at this chart just as people are seeing this. Everyone's like, "Nope, don't do what I do." It's interesting. We're going to talk about how founders are the happiest people in tech, but still it's a very stressful, hard job. I'm surprised it's the least. You would think many founders would be like, "This is the craziest, gnarliest job. You should not do this, it sucks." But it's interesting they're the least likely to recommend. There's a strong narrative right now that there's never been a better time to be a founder. You're a lot less reliant on other people to build. There's a ton of conversations around the solopreneur or the duopreneur. There's a ton of conversations around how this is the era to be a founder. And yet people who are currently in that role aren't very excited about recommending it to other people. There's also another layer to this, which is as you go down in seniority, you are less likely to recommend your role. So execs, VPs, maybe even directors are more likely to recommend their role than people who are ICs. That's an interesting one, I've seen all sorts of explanations for that. One explanation, for example, is that at the top of the pyramid, VPs are benefiting more from AI because they're getting all of this stream of information and knowledge being processed by AI, making their jobs a lot easier, whereas ICs are each scrambling to build all of these micro SaaS products within the companies they work for. No one knows what anyone else is doing. There's a lot of duplicative work. It's a lot easier to build products these days, but a lot harder to maintain them. And so I think a lot of ICs are feeling like, there's a saying, full gas on neutral. You are pushing the pedal to the metal in your car, but you're in neutral gear, you're not going anywhere. I think that's the feeling that a lot of ICs are having these days with these technologies. I keep building these things, but I'm not having the impact I want. Everyone else is building too. There's lots of confusion, and it's just not worth it anymore. There's this interesting also trend, there's this whole meme of don't become part of the permanent underclass. And I feel like there's a few of these threads throughout this. And here it's like, "Okay, I'm a PM, but it's too late. Don't do this. The door is closing for this role. Things are changing." And it's not just PM, it's every role. Everyone's just like, "Maybe should do something else."…

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