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you are making a whole lot of assumptions here that might be true in your experience but might be far from truth as a whole. over the almost 3 decades hacking I have had the pleasure of working with many 10x-ers and all but one were the least ambitious people you will ever meet. not sure how you can in general relate someone being awesome at what they do with being ambitious?

the winner-takes-all dynamics also would be such a terrible place to work, “the winner” is seldom-to-never a person actually doing the work but VCs and owners and… what is my ambition here? maybe minority in USA but people do not define their lives by their job, it is means to an end. go to work, do your job and then head home for important parts of life. I have always looked for meaningful work that matters and have largely succeeded later in my career but none of that success had anything to do with ambition.



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