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Satyajeet Salgar posted thisWhen for (at least) the 5th time since the start of the year, you are interacting in a work context (advising, colleague, partner company, interview advice etc.) with the kid of someone you once used to work with you know for sure you're getting old. :-)
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Satyajeet Salgar shared thisI understand growth levers and incentives, but the good folks at LinkedIn have got to stop sending me this notification. I opened this game while trying to dismiss this notification during a meeting. For those wondering, it plays a song. :-)
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Satyajeet Salgar posted thisSo tempted to change my job title to "Technically Member of Staff". :-)
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Satyajeet Salgar posted thisWatching final presos at a public speaking summer camp by 12yo is at. Topics from other kids include Impact of AI, Genocide, impact of plastics, the space race etc. My kid’s passionate speech was about how they need to push back school start times. Man of the people. :-)
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Satyajeet Salgar posted thisThere are some days I wonder who the parent really is: I was telling my 12yo how I was learning/re-learning some basic Macro-economics and Philosophy. He said: "Don't study philosophy too much. It'll just mess up your world view and hurt." #facepalm
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Satyajeet Salgar shared thisAre you reading less at work? And is AI (in this specific way) making you dumber? It might be for me, and so here's how I'm thinking about it... A colleague started a meeting with me asking if I’d read a document he’d sent over. I hadn’t yet and said I would. “Please do. I wrote every word. I’m telling everyone it’s not slop. Please pay attention to it.” Ah ha! I wasn’t the only one. :-) For the last couple of years, it’s been easier to produce documents at work - increasingly more impressive, and comprehensive ones - they’re often more effective as well: particularly when they’re for research or exploring new areas or even introducing someone new to your argument. Now documents have different purposes, and audiences. I wrote a separate post about how I think a large part of writing documents is to clarify your own thinking and you should really not use AI for some kinds of documents. However, humans being human use a tool that they think solves an immediate problem and so AI is used for a bunch of these. However, human attention is also finite and I find particularly if a document as that AI-smell to it, I’m less likely to read all of it. I start skimming looking for details that I truly care about in a document vs. letting the author make the argument they want to. I suspect this is happening pretty widely, and I think it’s potentially net worse for many teams. So here’s a few suggestions to reduce the AI slop in your orgs 1. Just tell people: For important documents, I just tell people “Please let me know what you think. It can be a 1-pager. It doesn’t need to a long doc.” This both takes the pressure off them and forces (well, at least suggests) brevity. 2. Read in passes: So I’ve always read certain long documents (particularly strategy documents, PRDs, blog posts etc.) this way and so it may not work for you, but I find my habit is even more useful now. I tend to skim over a document really fast in the first pass, and then do a second when I’m paying much more attention to sections I really care about. I sometimes do a third or fourth if I need to think more about a topic. 3. Last resort only - call a meeting: For particularly sloppy docs, asking someone to walk you through their thinking forces them to read the document for the first time and either focus on what truly matters or edit the document down. Good luck with dealing with your AI docs this week!
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Satyajeet Salgar shared this~7 years ago, with a few other folks, I helped start "Delight" on Search to do a whole bunch more Easter Eggs. This kind of organic, perfectly-capturing-a-very-specfic cultural moment, really quickly, was the goal. I loved this one, and it's always awesome when the subject delights in it as well. Kudos to whomever pushed this one through!Satyajeet Salgar shared thisLet me Google that for you… https://lnkd.in/ge9RhN7h
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Satyajeet Salgar posted thisWell you know it was a good internal codename when first another Google product takes it, and then a Meta product takes it. :-)
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Satyajeet Salgar posted thisConvincing a person that something isn't important enough that they don't need to worry if it doesn't work out, but important enough that they have to try their very best - true for many projects at work and most things with your kids. :-)
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Satyajeet Salgar liked thisCome join Jian Jiao’s monetization team and work with me!Satyajeet Salgar liked thisI'm excited to share two opportunities on my team within Microsoft Monetization Engineering. We're building the next generation of AI-powered creative, personalization, and commerce experiences using advances in multimodal foundation models, generative AI, ranking, and machine learning. We're hiring for two key roles: - Applied Science Manager: https://lnkd.in/gPjwzWqZ - Principal Applied Scientist / Tech Lead: https://lnkd.in/gzecVvF3 If you're passionate about translating cutting-edge AI research into products that deliver impact at global scale, we'd love to talk. Please share with anyone in your network who may be interested. #Hiring #Microsoft #AppliedScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #GenAI #Research #Leadership
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Satyajeet Salgar liked thisSatyajeet Salgar liked thisExcited to share that I've been promoted to Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships at 500 Global. A few weeks ago, Jen Kha announced that Andreessen Horowitz renamed their Investor Relations team to Global Partnerships; public recognition that some of the most valuable work in venture is building connective tissue between capital, policy, and innovation. 500 Global has operated from that premise for years. It's actually how I met Christine and Courtney back in 2019: in Saudi Arabia, where they were deeply entrenched in doing exactly that. Seven years later, that ecosystem work has resulted in 140+ portfolio companies, 250+ investors educated, $500M+ mobilized, tens of thousands of jobs created and so much more. That scale demands more than capital, it's necessitated coordination. In this expanded role I'll continue to operate in the corridors and "in betweens" — bridging the distance between capital and conviction, between global thesis and local context, between the investors who see the opportunity and the entrepreneurs and ecosystems positioned to realize it — across the places where that matters most. Grateful for an incredible team and the trust of Courtney Powell, Nadia Karkar, and 500 leadership. Reach out to me if you want to build together 🦾
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Satyajeet Salgar liked thisSatyajeet Salgar liked thisIn the past few weeks, I've watched three offers go out to product executives at $10M a year. Almost nobody gets that number. But when the top of the market gets paid like pro athletes, it pulls the whole industry up, and a new archetype, the product builder who operates as an executive, is now sought after at every tier. So the real questions: who gets those offers, and what moves put you in that set? That's this week's Skip podcast, through three real coaching cases. The takeaways: 1/ Everyone trying to maximize their career should ask three questions. How current does my next role need me to be? How many jobs do I have left? Do I have the skills and brands that make the elite path possible? The first is the newest and most critical: staying current is what guarantees future jobs while AI reformats every tech function. 2/ The elite tier changes the math. A strong IC or director package in Silicon Valley runs $400K to $1M. The top now pays 10-20x that. If you believe you could be elite one day, stop maximizing the current job and pick roles that set up the eventual executive seat. The skip job matters more than today's title and salary. 3/ Constraints are a risk budget. Spend it while you have it. A leader I coach walked away from a hot AI company because the valuation scared her, then found herself picking between two safe roles. No kids, real potential: the risky seat was the no-brainer she talked herself out of. Even if the equity goes to zero, the skills and peer group move her forward. When constraints are real (kids at home, income needs, location limits), they're inputs to the math, not something to be ashamed of. 4/ Staying current beats the biggest job at the best company. For most, the VP seat at a Fortune 20 was the destination. Today it can lock you out of the best companies down the road. The next generation of employers wants people who led a transformation or shifted into the new way of working, and that isn't the brand you bank at the largest companies. A quick test from the outside: are meetings for moving information or making decisions? Do promotions go to ideas or influence? 5/ Everyone says they're a builder now. Which PM isn't building something with AI tools this year? The label costs nothing, so it proves nothing. Take on internal projects that demand hands-on work with the latest tools, or apply to a few roles at genuinely current companies, and watch who shows interest. Better to learn now than four years into the plan. Either way, the data should tune where your hours go. 6/ Assume pay like this comes with strings. One seat rarely pays top of market, grows your skills, gives you joy, and respects your boundaries all at once. If one is lopsided, like pay, assume another is missing. Some people should run the auction and get paid. Others need permission not to chase the paycheck. You can have it all, just not at the same time. Each gets a full working-through on the podcast. Link in the first comment.
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Satyajeet Salgar liked thisSatyajeet Salgar liked thisThis is a story of dreams, tenacity, and relentless persistence. Yesterday, my niece Devyani officially began her journey to become a physician. I had the honor of attending her White Coat Ceremony at the Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she steps in with her sights set on specializing as a gynecologist or an oncologist. It all started when she was just 5 years old in Portland, Oregon. Her kindergarten class was asked to dress up as what they wanted to be when they grew up. While her classmates arrived as Superman, Barbie, and Spider-Man, Devyani knew exactly who she wanted to emulate: her favorite pediatrician, Dr. Catherine Thompson—the only doctor she knew. Her parents got her a tiny white coat custom-embroidered with “Dr. Devyani Shankar.” She held onto that coat for two decades. It traveled with her through high school, undergrad, and graduate programs—spanning five cities across two countries. It was far more than a childhood memory; it was the anchor for her ultimate goal. And the road was anything but easy. It took years of applications, an extra year of school, gap years dedicated to intense studying, application rejections, tears, and even traveling across international borders to find an open MCAT testing slot. I watched it all unfold—offering gentle encouragement when needed, but mostly giving her space to practice radical self-reliance to prepare her for life. Through every setback, late night, and moment of doubt, her resilience never wavered. Yesterday, she carried that very same 5-year-old’s white coat into her ceremony, right alongside the official one she earned. Devyani, your grit and determination inspire all of us. I could not be prouder of the woman and doctor you are becoming. The future of medicine is so much brighter with you in it! #yourdream #tenacity
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Satyajeet Salgar liked thisVery excited that Gemini Spark can now more easily wrangle your tedious web errands behind logins with Chrome auto browse. Congratulations to Matthew Rendely Kathryn Leahy and team!Satyajeet Salgar liked this📢 Gemini Spark now works with Google Chrome auto browse! With your permission, Spark can help complete online tasks and web errands by using your logged-in accounts and saved passwords in Chrome, keeping you in the loop for sensitive actions. Breakdown on what’s new at https://goo.gle/4xg3bqs and congrats to Charmaine D'Silva Adam Coimbra Ted Choc Yaowu Xu and the team! 🕸️ 🤖 ✨
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Satyajeet Salgar liked thisSatyajeet Salgar liked thisSuper cool feature! Gemini Spark can now work directly with auto browse in Google Chrome. ✨🌐 Spark can now tap Chrome auto browse to handle your most tedious web errands. Let’s say you’re looking for a new apartment and have to schedule several viewings during an especially busy week. Spark can book tours for places you saved in just one prompt. And this is all built with security in mind. Auto browse protects against threats like prompt injection, and is designed to hand any sensitive actions (like payments) back to you for confirmation. I recently put Spark to the test to assist a friend with managing time-share slots for her vacation rental. After feeding it the original contract, their existing tracking sheets, and a few emails detailing specific updates, it organized everything into a clean spreadsheet outlining family schedules for the next three years, and uploaded it to the site the site manager wanted. It was super easy and saved me a lot of time. Read the blog to learn more and start crossing things off your to-do list! https://goo.gle/4fxJhkO
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Satyajeet Salgar liked thisSatyajeet Salgar liked thisAfter four years at BetterUp, I'm stepping into the CTO role here. Thank you to Alexi Robichaux and Eduardo Medina for building something worth dedicating a career to, and for trusting me to help lead it forward. It's rare when your personal mission lines up this well with your company's. I get to build teams and products that help people live with clarity, purpose, and passion. I've said this internally, and I'll say it here too: my goal is 500 CTOs at BetterUp, not just one. Being your own CTO means you can see what needs building and build it yourself, no handoff required, something AI has made possible for more of us than ever. The next big or small idea at BetterUp is yours to build.
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