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Shyam Sankar

5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2024 by Shyam Sankar · said 9 times in 6 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jan 17, 2024 positive
Insight
Companies should design roles around exceptional talent instead of rigid slots
“Really talented people are highly asymmetric. You're much better off designing a role around who they are, rather than saying, what role can I slot you into?”
Shyam Sankar Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 49:04 Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2024 positive
Opinion
Palantir survives frequent corporate reinventions by operating like an artist colony
“And I think it's actually only survivable because the whole thing is set up as an artist colony.”
Shyam Sankar Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 58:26 Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2024 negative
Insight
Linear corporate career progression is deeply inauthentic for elite talent
“Artists' work don't monotonically get better. This idea that you're gonna climb levels in this sort of strictly increasing way, I think, is deeply inauthentic.”
Shyam Sankar Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 49:50 Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
The commercial sector now conducts the majority of R&D over government
“And so as the world transitioned from a place where all of the R&D was done by the government, fifties, sixties, obviously the preponderance of R&D is done by the commercial world.”
Shyam Sankar Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 10:17 Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2024
Insight
Managers should shield creative talent from the brutal reality of budgets
“What you really want, I mean, that's the job of the talent manager, is to manage to the budget without exposing the brutal reality of the budget to the talent. You know, how can I get the talent to feel a few less constraints while actually being constrained?”
Shyam Sankar Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 55:09 Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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