[Highlight] Shishir Mehrotra (Superhuman CEO) on Careers at Big Tech vs. Startups

Hey. Ben Kesnoka here, cofounder, general partner of Village Global, a network native venture firm. What you're about to hear is a clip from a longer conversation. If you'd like to listen to the full length version, find the link in the description, and, of course, subscribe so you don't miss the next one. Enjoy. Most people think Silicon Valley is, like, 10,000 different companies, but it's really not. It's actually two companies. One's called Silicon Valley Inc, and one's called Google Inc. And they are each, like, different, government systems. So, Google Inc is a benevolent dictatorship, and Silicon Valley Inc is a capitalist democracy. And they have the pros and cons of each system. So what's the biggest pro of a benevolent dictatorship? Is you get fast you get clear decision making lines. So in practice, that may not may not feel like clear decision making lines. They gave this analogy of it's kind of like, imagine you were trying to get, you're trying to get bread. So sometimes when you're sitting inside, Googling, it can feel like you're sitting in one bread line, then another bread line, then another bread line, then another bread line. And at the end of your with your cup out What's your cup out? With your cup out. It's all over Twitch. The, and at the end of the 20 bread lines, you will get an answer. Like, there is a there is a path to get an answer, and somebody tells you, you get bread or you don't get bread. The people inside Google Inc look out at the people inside Silicon Valley Inc, and they look out and they say, look at these people running around with their heads cut off. They're all conflicting with each other. They've got you know, like, they were putting three coffee shops in the same corner. Like, why do they do that? They should have a meeting, one coffee shop. Like, that's the obvious thing to do. The people sitting inside of, Silicon Valley Inc look up at the people inside Google Inc, and they're sort of up in this big window, and they they look like they're in the pull up bureau. And they they all have, they don't exactly know how they got there. And they're kinda wondering what those people do and and what how do they stay? And the people up there have all realized the secret. This is the punchline of the analogy. Like I said, it's not very positive for for Google. But the the punchline of the analogy is, all of people sitting up there have realized, the one secret is to to staying in that pull up bureau is create one more breadline, and you get to stay. And it was like this person tells me this, and, it's, there's a lot of implications in that. So, you know, one one implication that is, when when you join a bigger company, you're gonna learn a set …