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I'm Ed Zittron and this is Better Offline. In the previous episode, I walk through how General Electric's Jack Welch created the disgraceful terms of modern capitalism.

A corporate mindset, where thousands of people are laid off to boost revenues when a company is making millions or billions of dollars in profits, and an era of growth at all-cost corporations that create

nothing but shareholder value, run by an entire class of managerial pencil pushers that only

really care about hitting analyst targets. In this episode, I'm going to show you how bad

that's been specifically for the tech industry.

As ever, please check out the episode details for an URL that has sources for everything I'm talking about in this and future episodes.

Sorry to repeat myself on that one, but it's really important, you know, I did not just make all of this up.

Anyway, a couple weeks back, OpenAI CTO, Miramarati, spoke for nearly an hour at Dartmouth

University, where she recently accepted an honorary, which by the way means fake, doctorate of

science, for, and I quote, pushing the frontiers of what neural networks can do.

This is, by the way, very funny. It's very funny indeed.

Because other than when she graduated with her Bachelor of Engineering from the Theas School of Engineering,

and for one year of her career, Miramarati has only ever been a manager, specifically a project manager, somebody who doesn't

write code or build software, but points at things and say is, yeah, we should do that.

After graduating, Miramorati worked briefly at a French aerospace company called Zodiac as an

advanced concepts engineer before joining Tesla in 2013 as a product manager, before moving to Leap Motion

from 2016 to 2018, where she was the VP of Product and Engineering. A deceiving title, again,

does not mean she actually wrote code for a company that also burned tens of millions of dollars

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