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Bridgewater's Dot Collector tool was a metaphor with no connection to investments
“I believe the dot collector is, is my research would tell me is just a giant distraction that it all had to do with nothing to do with investments, but it was a metaphor.”
Bridgewater forced employees to hit a daily quota of negative peer ratings
“What Bridgewater starts doing is it starts telling employees, you have to rate a certain number of incidents per day. You have to put in dots. And not only that, but a certain percentage of your dots must be negative.”
Ray Dalio pitched his employee rating software to Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey
“His great dream is that the principles and the dot collector would be adopted by other companies, and he went to other, to some of the most famous men in business. You know, he told people inside Bridgewater. He was talking to Elon Musk about doing this at Tes…”
Bridgewater spent over $100 million developing Dalio's employee rating software
“So this was Ray's great dream, and he talked about it endlessly inside Bridgewater, and he, they spent more than a hundred million dollars on this technology.”
Bridgewater uses the internal euphemism 'sorting out' instead of firing employees
“Literally, if you don't have high enough ratings in certain categories, you will get what Bridgewater calls sorted, sorted out. They don't call it getting fired. They call it sorting you.”
Coinbase trialed Dalio's Dot Collector software but dropped it due to unpopularity
“So he was successful with Coinbase. I don't know exactly how, but he got Coinbase to do a trial program where they brought the dot collector to Coinbase. And spoiler alert, the reaction among Coinbase employees was quite poor. And when reporters asked Coinbase…”