I have just returned from a trip to Colorado for a meeting of my Aspen Institute Health Innovation Fellowship group. When we meet, a large portion of our time is taken up discussing great works of literature that inform such questions as “What is A Great Society?” and “What Do You Want Your Legacy to […]
Meritocracy Works if You Know the Right People
“Meritocracy works if you know the right people.” I love the irony of that quote, which was said by Laura Gomez, founder of Vyv and former Google and Twitter employee (although she was quoting Marc Andreessen). Gomez, a Hispanic tech executive, made this comment at an event called “A Conversation on Closing the Racial and […]