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The Impact of Con Men on the Tech Industry

There's basically three jobs in big tech one job is creating iterative improvements on existing products and then you have the people who are responsible for kind of what you might call the moonshot products this is a mix of the next big thing and and doomed failures. The third kind of job that the tech industry has broadly speaking are con men according to Nate Silver. Every major tech company is run by some form of con man right like Mark Zuckerberg obviously is a fucking flim flam artist but Tim Cook is the least conniest among them, he says. You can often have very real products there's actual technology going into the into the Apple glasses marketed by con men flim flams artists said

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