> I have tried to recruit too many smart people who are wasting their prime years of productivity working in Big Tech because ‘the pay is too good’.<p>This is the most honest sentence in the entire piece: We should remove the choice of individuals to work at Big Tech Cos because I want them to work on something else for less money. This whole essay is embarrassing for Chamath.<p>Edit: Almost unbelievably, he closes with this: "Take the advice of others but carefully consider how it applies to you. What works for others may not work for you."<p>Also can't help but laugh that he compares Social Capital performance to Berkshire. Social Capital outperformed the S&P by 19%, BH by 155%