Costolo: Silicon Valley hero mythology falsely elevates founders above normal people
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Dick Costolo, former Twitter CEO, shares a core belief that contrarily challenges mainstream views in Silicon Valley.
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“The thing that I believe that maybe many people in the industry disbelieve, I think that as opposed to the mythology of Silicon Valley of there are these sort of superheroes out there, and they have these amazing superpowers that the rest of us don't have, the reality is that all of us have a few superpowers, and all of us have a few probably super weaknesses, and there's much less difference between those we mythologize and those we hold up as heroes and everybody else.”
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