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I normally wouldn’t raise it if I couldn’t independently verify it happened myself, but this person is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, so I totally believe it. They left a very cushy job to take a job at Wealthfront, so leaving after a few months had to take something pretty substantive.

I have worked with someone who used to work at Wealthfront, and said that he had said to them “do not speak to me unless I speak to you.” They left within months of starting.

It is risky. Why work at a unproven startup doing something really hard for $150k and equity of questionable value when you can work at a FANG for $350k/year doing less work?

Google acquired DeepMind...

I just finished the Eric Weinstein/Peter Thiel podcast, and came away mostly agreeing with their assessment that we’ve really stagnated when it has come to progressing scientifically.

I definitely feel like there’s this illusion of tech innovation coming from these big companies that suck up all the tech talent, but at end of day the best and brightest are working on optimizing ad clicks (FB, Goog) or getting people to buy crap (Amazon) or working on incremental hardware improvements (Apple).

If anything, I would hope any outcome against big tech would level the playing field when it comes to attracting talent, and create an environment where working on true “moonshot” tech was not so risky.

Yeah I’m referring to basically that, except it would be customized so that they’d be pay by 15m and put in public spaces or coffee shops instead of private offices. I have used them at companies I’ve worked for and they’re great, but thinking more about the remote worker or freelancer out in public (not at an office or coworking space) who might want to pay a few bucks in an otherwise loud public space for a quiet place to talk a call.

Yep, true. The single person booths would still be interesting for most remote workers though and don’t take up much space at all

I’ve been playing around with the idea of building on demand phone booth conference rooms (the ones you see in coworking spaces) but reservable in 15m blocks that open with a code from an app. Could partner with coffee shops or even cities for people who need some sound proof time while out and about to take a call, zoom into a meeting while out in public, etc.

Isn’t that the whole story behind the linked article?