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		vl on March 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Groups has been left to die > Most internally promoted E6s or above got that way by initiating multiple projects, then dumping them on others Well, Jeff and Sanjay got to DE/Fellows this way, so this is a good role model. Unfortunately doesn’t scale.

westurner on March 9, 2023 [–]

When you get promoted, they tend to move you to different projects (that need different resources at founding time than the operations folks that have experience scaling up)

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