Why tech companies struggle to hire great storytellers, per Anna Mitchell
chrisalbon · x · 2026-11-04
Anna Mitchell observes that tech companies struggle to recruit great "storytellers" because the best ones are driven to understand and impact the world — they gravitate toward journalism, writing, policy, and nonprofits, and find most B2B SaaS / vertical AI problems lacking in world consequence. She joined Cognition because she believes "software abundance" is a genuinely important problem. chrisalbon notes this tweet explains his own odd career path.
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