Eric Siu argues that adversity reveals who you really are. People who coast at successful companies like Nvidia never face challenges that test their character, while those who power through tough times show what they're made of. He criticizes people who take credit for work they barely contributed to.
Adversity doesn't just create your character. At the end of the day, it reveals your character, right? And so when you work for a company that's boring, when you run through rough patches, you either power through it or you don't. If you don't power through it, you get fired, right? But you can coast in these multi-trillion-dollar companies and you might not get caught because the product keeps growing, to your point. They have so much distribution. If you're Microsoft, you have so much distribution coming from all these sources. It's like saying, hey, I'm the CMO of Nvidia. Look how good of a job I've done. No. I helped Nvidia grow to $3.5 trillion? Something like that. In the last 4 years. You just sat there. The product delivered. You don't have to do anything really. Yeah. Like, I'm just being honest, right? But a lot of people take credit where they didn't really do anything. And that's the sad reality of hiring some of these people.
