Tech World
topic on 7 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
More or Less 
American Optimist 
Lenny's Podcast 
the Neon Show 
Capital Allocators 
Top Founders 
20VC
9 statements about Tech World, every show
Midlife tech workers are judged by their energy over their physical age
“When I talk to someone who's in midlife and wants to be in the tech world or already is, the thing I say is show up with curiosity and a passionate engagement for what you do. And people won't necessarily notice your wrinkles as much as they'll notice your ene…”
Terry: Tech has suffered net job losses while healthcare and government added jobs
“The overall economy, there's been net job additions, Lenny, but those have been primarily in healthcare and government. There've been net job losses in tech.”
Brit Morin: Tech will return to in-person work with flexible hours
“I'm voting more also because there are statistics around what happened with like mental health and community involved, community involvement and, you know, belonging since 2019. And it is, I mean, everyone I think knows this, but it's totally plummeted. Down t…”
Adm. McRaven: Military is actively recruiting from the commercial tech sector
“The military has You know, we've been looking at a lot of ways to recruit, you know, great young men and women from the tech world to kind of help the military deal with some of the tech challenges that they're dealing with.”
Libby: True innovation is in tech, not finance, which relies on scale
“What happened is, if we're honest with ourselves, the real change is happening in the tech world. There's not much innovation happening in finance. It's really operational alpha and scale.”
Massey: Google was ground zero for evidence-based people analytics
“The people analytics world really blew up in the last, I don't know, 10 years or so. Google was ground zero and the tech world really kind of bought into this. We need to improve HR decision-making by being more evidence-based.”
David Sacks: A Hollywood Auteur Mentality Has Entered the Tech World
“Over the last decade or so, a little bit of that Hollywood auteur mentality, you know, among directors has sort of creeped into the tech world, where founders like Hollywood directors want total creative freedom. They want final cut, and that's as it should be…”
Ameera Shah: Healthcare is rigid and resistant to new ideas versus tech
“In healthcare people value a lot of experience, and therefore tradition, ways of doing things tend to be quite set and the mindset tends to be a little bit rigid, and people are not always very open to new ideas, unlike the tech world, where it's very differen…”
Valkin: The most disruptive tech ideas come from twenty-something founders
“That it's a young person's world, and that the in the tech world, your twenties, every possibility is open to you. And that many of the really interesting projects and most disruptive ideas come from people that are freshly minted graduates or didn't even get …”