There's a joke that runs around Harvard Business School, which is basically, if you want to start a hedge fund, do it and show whatever industry too many Harvard MBA's going to be. I wonder if the monoculture that's emerging is one that's even worse than that. It's a monoculture of opportunity. And it's only people who've been really lucky in the past who've like, of course, they've worked hard,. but they've seen how fortunate they are.
This episode was actually recorded on February 18; however, due to circumstances, we had to hibernate Exponent and the episode was never actually edited and posted.
Now that the show is back – for good this time – we wanted to post the “missing episode” plenty of folks have asked us about. There are a couple of dated references, but the content is still very applicable.
In this episode we talk about privilege and whether Silicon Valley is solving the right problems. It’s certainly not a new question, but has it become more pressing in the last few months?
Links:
- Don’t Build Your Startup Outside of Silicon Valley – Max Wessell HBR
Thanks for your patience!