Sunday, December 6, 2015
"The way he funded the ARPANET was he called people up and described the project. If the person didn’t say yes right away, he moved on. You need people who get it quick.
You say to hire generalists. I’d say, we need people with this kind of experience. Larry and Sergey would say, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Okay, so who do you want to hire? Incredibly intelligent people. They’d figure out that what you want them to work on is stupid, and they work on the right things. It was all in good fun.
Their point was that the industry overvalues experience, and undervalues strategic and tactical flexibility."
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