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James Cowling (Convex)

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Starting in a Big Company, You May Not Learn Ownership

Starting at a big company, the skill is you learn how to do things properly. The downsides are that you may never learn independence or ownership. If you're not someone who's built something from the ground up, it's very easy to criticize other people's work. There's a great subtlety in building systems that can scale to largeer use cases. Sometimes you can just absorb things organically by being around them.

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