David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah, and to do the best they can given that. Obviously, you always want to do the best you can, sure, but I think it's actually meaningful. In the end, I think that in practice, that isn't something that people always do. I think often people get flustered and end up doing nothing close to the best they can because they're just like, oh, geez, I don't even know what to do here. There are no good decisions. So yeah, I agree. Mario, you wrote about this in your great pieces a little bit. I think that that cultural value actually is quite different from Web 2.0 in traditional Silicon Valley companies in hiring, which mostly was this gross generalization. Obviously not every company fits this, but mostly, I think has, over the past 10, 15 years been hiring for experience. You scaled at Google, come to Facebook. You scaled at Facebook, come to Snapchat, et cetera, and on and on. That's really very different from what you're saying. Yeah, experience is very much not what we hire for. In fact, sometimes we're almost like, I wouldn't quite say we're anti-selecting for it, but we like flexibility. We can teach things. If there's something you don't know, you can overcome that. We can't teach someone necessarily how to stay cool under pressure or something like that.…

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