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How do people fail upwards?
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I'm not sure if you've got the Peter Principle in mind, OP, which is that people tend to be promoted for their success in one area, only to become increasingly less competent and capable of demonstrating potential for success the further up they climb with each promotion. It's an extremely common phenomenon in business and politics, but also in academia and tech.
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>>108056432
parents were scientists at los alamos
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Dumb upper management being tricked by buzzwords and not seeing through the bullshit.
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>>108056432
If you know the right people they'll get you in. Look up the kinds of people he was hanging around before the business. It'll all make sense.
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>>108056456
ok but he got promoted as chief AI (LLM) officer at meta while having nothing to do with AI or LLMs in his previous role at Scale. His whole startup was about tagging images with 3rd world labor
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>>108056537
Classic example of the Peter Principle. Man who knows nothing about X gets promoted to doing X because X is seen as high-status.
I remember one of my former boss was a webdev who got promoted to operations management and quality control management because they were the highest-ranking roles in the company outside of the executive board. Needless to say, this person crashed out and quit in a matter of months due to utter incompetence in the area.
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>>108056432
YN hires young people for PR and I am quite sure as bait for gay investors like Thiel. They don't need skill they just need to be a good face that can be charming. Like In-Q-Tel and Zuckerberg. The economy is fake anyway you should rather ask why scams are rewarded and keep producing these bubbles.
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>>108056432
>This dude looks way too young for C-suite, he must have a good skincare routine
>Look him up
>He's actually younger than I am

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