I pray 7 years at Google is enough to break through this with my own startup. Left a year ago. Before Google, I was a college drop out & waiter that sold a mildly successful startup. No one cared. Next best offers were $120K in NYC, or $50K in Buffalo.
You know, thinking on it, the factor you mention gets it more likely to get you funding, and the funding is what lets you live in an echo chamber.
Tis sort of close-minded navel-gazing happened all. the. time. at Google. I call it "rich people thinking" but it might just be the penultimate white collar thing. At some point the "success" of being there is widely considered enough, and anyone speaking up is either crazy or not a team player.
Even when you've been watching the naked emperor together for 6 months.
Even when "speaking up" is hilariously non-negative, ex. "just a thought exercise, is it possible the emperor does not have 1000 layers of clothes? if so, maybe possibly could I do some work to contribute to the team that could consider an action plan to account for any anticipated negative effect in the market if, possibly, it is shown they are lacking some clothes?"
There's plenty of obviously coarse contrarians, I used to think complaining about this sort of thing was for chumps who couldn't communicate. It's not. Social problems tend to be well-known, drive ~all variability in results, and simple enough that a middle schooler would grok them.
You know, thinking on it, the factor you mention gets it more likely to get you funding, and the funding is what lets you live in an echo chamber.
Tis sort of close-minded navel-gazing happened all. the. time. at Google. I call it "rich people thinking" but it might just be the penultimate white collar thing. At some point the "success" of being there is widely considered enough, and anyone speaking up is either crazy or not a team player.
Even when you've been watching the naked emperor together for 6 months.
Even when "speaking up" is hilariously non-negative, ex. "just a thought exercise, is it possible the emperor does not have 1000 layers of clothes? if so, maybe possibly could I do some work to contribute to the team that could consider an action plan to account for any anticipated negative effect in the market if, possibly, it is shown they are lacking some clothes?"
There's plenty of obviously coarse contrarians, I used to think complaining about this sort of thing was for chumps who couldn't communicate. It's not. Social problems tend to be well-known, drive ~all variability in results, and simple enough that a middle schooler would grok them.