We’ve talked about ‘error compounding’ at the start of this newsletter, but perhaps
everything compounds in a certain way. Exceptional AI talent certainly seems to, as the War for Talent 2.0 has seen extraordinary efforts by Mark Zuckerberg to secure the sort of elite talents to build his Super Intelligence team. What is the labour market economics of AI going forward?
Great discussion which attempts to answer this question, with tons of great ideas including how you value a business when the commitment of talent to that business is now being eroded by extraordinary sums offered. One point the author misses - many of the $100 million signing bonus club were relative no-names back in their academic research lab days, which in some cases as a little as 5 years ago, so the obvious thing to do would be to pick from the tree?