Keynote: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
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First-person account of working at HubSpot details a frat‑house culture, a two‑week indoctrination, and firing called "graduation", with the average employee age 26 while the narrator is 52. Argues the VC model — grow fast, lose money, cash out — produces churn: of 60 tech IPOs since 2011 only ten ever made a profit. Cites workers living in tents near Amazon, Facebook cafeteria staff sleeping in garages, and rising wealth concentrated in eight people.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 11:45Why Modern Work Culture Makes People So Miserable
- 12:20Gig Economy
- 14:08Examples of the Precariat
- 17:23Netscape
- 18:09Why Is the Workplace Changing
- 19:07Bro Culture Income Inequality
- 19:47Hire for Culture Fit
- 21:48Income Inequality
- 24:22Response from Silicon Valley
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