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Can you speak as to how you would develop the skill to identify companies that end up having success but _also_ compensate their employees well? Also, if you're actually good at that skill, aren't you incentivized to just be an investor instead?

Regardless, being able to identify "company success" is something that's always been taught as luck/lottery so I'd love to improve my ability here.



I'm in that situation, I've made more money on investing in technology companies than working at them. Unfortunately the skillsets are somewhat orthogonal so I was unable to get a job at Google, but was able to buy in at the IPO.




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