This is a terrible business. I don't recommend anyone work there. I worked as a personal trainer for over four years and was dismissed as soon as I developed back pain and couldn’t maintain high performance.
About to watch, just want to guess what his advice would be: 1) Play up to powers that be (curry favors with the money, ie adobe) 2) After establishing rapport with your subordinates, treat them like dog food (paywall customers to oblivion) 3) Take full credit for all the work that your staff has produced (change terms to own all assets on platform for training AI) 4) Reassign blame to employees for any blunders (copyrighted works in files used in AI training are users' responsibility) Am I close? Let's see...
Kudos to the engineers. From a pure tech perspective, Figma indeed built the most disruptive, innovative, and seamless design product of the last decade. But... "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." It's just sad to see them jump to the last step so quickly chasing the AI train. It's exclusively the blame of the executive team. Greed so gross.
Happy that this was recommended to me. Really enjoyed it. I think the questions and guest were amazing but I think it’d be more insightful if you’d dive a bit more into his answers. Like he was saying he looks for core values that team wants and also at some point look for new values or qualities on ppl, which begs to question what kind of qualities he’s talking about, for example.
Sales is such an underrated industry. It has such little prestige and yet the compensation is almost always above that of finance, tech or consulting, especially with the added commission bonuses. Looking forward to next episode!!
