Balaji: Media prioritizes writers over engineers, while tech does the opposite
Balaji Srinivasan · Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 · May 5, 2021 · at 18:05
Balaji Srinivasan, former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase CTO, contrasts organizational cultures between traditional media and Silicon Valley tech companies.
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“On the East coast, for example, media, media businesses have sort of software engineers as a second class citizen, right? They're just guys who build the app and the writers are kind of the first class, right? Traditionally in tech, it's been the opposite. You know, the software engineers are the, you have pride of place. They're building Dropbox or Google or whatever. And then the writers are content marketing.”
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