Brit Ho

One of my key takeaways is that your experience, passion, and motivation are more important than the degree you obtain or the school you go to. During my placement, my goals were to network and expand my knowledge for this type of role. I net…

…s responded with Machine Learning, Design Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and Scalability as the most valuable skills and technologies.

“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.” — Elon Musk

…h, or the thing they are thinking about doing isn’t going to have an impact. This is clearly wrong. Every single good thing starts with someone speaking up and doing something about it. And it doesn’t need be some massive fundraising event, or the start of a new not for profit — it c…

When I’m recruiting, I’ve found that the combo of being passionate and having the habit of doing things excellently are together a strong signal of career fulfillment. I’d hire someone who demonstrates these qualiti…

You’ll become valuable and naturally build your reputation. Successful people who notice you will introduce you to other successful people who have an interest in knowing people like you. The market for talent is powerful and incredibly close-knit. It’s this magical market that developed my faith in the career stumble.

…merits of life insurance. But putting pragmatism aside, there is one thing I’d urge everyone to do. Stop just assuming you have a full lifetime to do whatever it is you dream of doing. I know it sounds ridiculously cliched, and of course you never think it will happen to you, but le…

who chall…lidated you, and so your whole self-image is thoroughly and inextricably entangled in your success. You end up believing that the world is meritocratic and that you succeeded because of something immanently great about you. You’re left believing you’re a kind of hero, making the world a better place by unleashing the wealth creation power of startups. Anyone who challenges this narrative is challenging your very conception of who you are.

Right now every man in tech needs to take a hard look at his own role in either perpetuating or preventing this behavior.