SF tech founder: stop pretending you don't want to win — honesty beats fake indifference
gabriel1 · x · 2026-10-23
An AI-circle KOL with 132K followers rants that everyone in the SF tech scene already wants to win — working in SF or building a following takes enormous effort — so the real choice is between lying that you don't care, or being honest and letting people make informed decisions.
Follow-ups: the scarcest signal at work is datapoints on how good and trustable someone is, which is why his first three hires were people he'd known and worked with for years; SF is special because winners don't mean losers — everyone benefits when things get better and cheaper; wanting to win while pretending not to, and shaming others for it, is where snakes come from.
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