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"You can't innovate without taking career-ending risks."

Its not the job of employees to bear this burden - if you have visionary leadership at the helm, they should be the ones absorbing this pressure. And thats what is missing.

The reality is folks like Zuck were never visionaries. Lets not derail the thread but a) he stole the idea for facebook b) the continued success of Meta comes from its numerous acquisitions and copying its competitors, and not from organic product innovation. Zuckerberg and Musk share a lot more in common than both would like to admit.



If we want to maximize justice instead of corporate performance then we have to abolish the system, confiscate corporate wealth and redistribute it equally. That would probably be more just than what we have today... But the corporations would all collapse.

It depends what you want to optimize for.


That doesn't mean there isn't a middle ground, y'know—where company/division/organization leaders both advance ideas and take responsibility for them.




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