Wasn’t Emad working at a hedge fund before this? I’m surprised the article glosses over the fact that he had 0 experience in the tech industry before starting one of the most ambitious tech projects ever
The cliché is CEO positions select for soiciopathy.
Different games seem to select for certain types of antisocial thinking.
Is there a pattern to the type of person (a) selected by hedge funds, (b) successful at hedge funds?
I don't believe we should stereotyping individuals based on their group categories. Neither do I think that we can apply psych labels to groups.
But we don't seem to have better ways to question the issue...
Someone leaving a hedge fund while still early in their career is a strong negative signal. e.g. SBF and Caroline both from Jane Street.
One of the things I am focused on now is bringing that research with the new medical LMs so for autism, cancer, MS, Alzheimer’s & more everyone has comprehensive, authoritative and up to date knowledge at their fingertips on these and also a guide so they never feel alone and helps them on their journey if they or a loved one gets this diagnosis.
It will be open and transparent, took a while to build to here but looking forward to next steps.
There is more to life than power and money.
I've never tried either end of the power or money scales so I'm not qualified to agree or disagree.
Your story is about personal power - applying your skills to a problem that most people are powerless to solve.
For some reason your story made me think of this: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/please-be-dying-but-not-... -- Where's the accessible database of trials?
https://hai.stanford.edu/watch-caiac
The big companies here and more promised me tech to build the system and didn't deliver which is why I did Stability to make sure there were open alternatives.
Still achieving the output we did based on completely diverse global team form mostly untraditional backgrounds outside SF & the resources we had is a positive not negative story.
The first 20 employees I hired were graduates from the job centre in Ilford and we built this above a chicken shop.
Talk about that here https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/1773863016775213545?s=20