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by nixon_why69 98 days ago
There's a second layer of abstraction here where it's way harder to measure a big tech exec's worth.

Trading firm managers are like sales managers, you've got one number, nothing else matters, the truth will set you free.

Big Tech is a bunch of people competing for influence over the big shared number coming in from ads or whatever, it's important to have good UX etc so you get more ad money, but how do you tell who's meaningfully contributing, or who's just really good at playing internal politics? This will bias towards different sorts of decisions.