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Frerichs: Zuckerberg Won't Censor Again, Goldman Won't Return to Quotas
“I actually think folks like Mark Zuckerberg, he's not going to censor speech again. I don't think that you're going to have Goldman going back to some of the quota systems that they were implementing.”
Lessin: Elite Corporate Resumes Do Not Select the Best Performers
“You're kind of looking from, you're saying, hey, who worked at Goldman and Morgan and Bain and McKinsey and Google? It's like, not the best people. It's the people who happen to be credentialed, right? In a lot of ways, but that's clearly not the way to do it …”
Frerichs: Goldman, Amazon, and Meta Are Dropping DEI/ESG Policies
“Corporate America, you're seeing again, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Facebook, Meta, all dropping a lot of their DEI and ESG policies.”
Attia: Medicine is falling behind tech and finance for top talent
“I would gather that there is a historical trend line that shows a waxing and waning of where the top talent go. Like where are the best and brightest out of college go? How many of them are going to Goldman Sachs? How many of them are starting, going to startu…”
Kaplan: Goldman Sachs tuned Devin for proprietary internal programming languages
“Goldman Sachs has invented some of their own programming languages. People don't know this, but Goldman has like a pretty insane internal engineering team and they've literally written their own programming languages and they've been able to sort of customize …”
Lessin: Slow Ventures Hired Associate via Open Test with 1,500 Applicants
“I worked with some friends. We built a V one, literally end to end. We built a test around it instead of just hiring, you know, calling my friends at Goldman and saying, who are the four kids that are interested in venture capital, right? Which is what we've d…”
Davidson: Early-twenties founders do not need a decade of prior experience
“You don't need 10 years of work experience to want to solve a problem, and that if you're someone who's intellectually curious and willing to work really hard, you can, in your early twenties, start making a huge difference to solving these problems and actual…”