Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave
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Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave mentions Apprentice to Genius and Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
this interesting book uh Apprentice to genius uh that follows it's three or four generations of scientists
Hamilton Helmer is probably the leading scholar of some of the sources of defensibility for businesses; he has this well-known niche book called Seve…
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