“ And when I say quality of work, I mean more than the environment, or the IQ of those I’ll be working with. I mean the opportunity to do what may lead to, first-class work, Nobel-prize winning kind of work.1 I look for places where I am upstream of technological change: that means, any deals with, say, old guard media companies or the Fortune 500, while they could be good, don’t really interest me. I want to work on what might become fundamental changes in the way people use technology to do things.
The Choice of Work « Essays by Danielle Fong via Hacker News