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		malmsteen on Oct 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them > work on inconsequential work (thinking Google hired so many to lure people clicking ads). I'm not sure if it's what you meant but working to make people click ad is probably the most consequential work that has been done in SV in the past 40 years... It's the thing that enabled everything else.

pryelluw on Oct 30, 2017 [–]

I thought it was the PC itself.

Amygaz on Oct 30, 2017 | [–]

Then closely followed by the spreadsheet.

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