Waste of Talents

Headhunting is a major driver for the success of BigTech companies.

If for a moment we forget about wage - can we say the same for talents?

Such talents will spend their most sparkling years in big Companies. That is, small scale autarchies.

Do they feel deeply rewarded?

From a long term human and economic perspective, is this the best use of talents?

If you, BigCompany, hire a person with the potential to grow into a Nobel, or Fields medal.

Do you have the instruments and the flexibility to nurture the talent you bought?

In such sense, leadership and management have a tremendous responsibility and opportunity.

Be creative!

Seek the value beyond your limits and the strict expectations that we are used to attach to specific roles.

Don't waste human capital.

The free market is not enough, nowadays and by itself, to encourage the best talents to tackle the hardest problems.

Investments in the solution to the hardest problems is not rewarded (enough) by mainstream economy.

We need wise people to take bold and wise bets.

I am not saying that it is not happening already to some extent.

But we need it much more.

We need this mentality to become pervasive to every and each capital attractor.