Why do you still think Andrea Seccafien will leave? Surely she would have left already if she was planning on leaving given the injury and being away from the group already.
An "opportunity to pursue work in the venture capital industry". I am genuinely curious what degree or work experience has led her to be useful in that field, or if this is a friend of a friend letting her into the free money club.
A quick Google search would tell you that she has two relevant degrees — B.S. and M.S. — from Stanford University and spent two summers in college working internships in venture capital.
Her degrees both sounds like BS. A Bachelors in "Symbolic Systems with an emphasis on neurology" and a Master's in "management, science, and engineering".
So is she a symbologist, a neurologist, a manager, a scientist, or an engineer? All five? I'm actually asking. In which of these five areas of supreme mastery is she working in at the throw-money-at-tech-companies industry?
Marissa Mayer of Google and Yahoo! fame also has a symbolic systems degree. What a loser.
So jealous and spiteful. We all know college / pro athletes get attention from employers, as do Stanford degrees, no matter what the major. (I believe Julia Stamps majored in sociology and started on Wall Street, for example.)
Anyway, I have no interest in venture capital so good for someone who is and ends up doing that.
I get the feeling that Nike is going to pull the plug on BTC after Paris. The Oregon job was a golden parachute for Schumacher and Flanagan. Most of the current roster will be done with track after 2024 and I don't think that Jerry wants a stable of aging marathon runners. Nike will fiscally take care of Fisher for the long haul, but most of the current group will retire or fall away.
I glad Vanessa is back where she belongs. The San Francisco Bay Area is the undisputed center of world technology, innovation, culture, art. science, academics, sports, computers, finance, etc.
Smart of her to move on. Given Nike's history with reduction clauses, I doubt they paid her very much money this year with the times she ran. Injuries suck and I hope her new situation works to her benefit.
At the end of the day, everyone has an elitist “in to the club” when it comes to VC. Between Mcgorty, Fisher, Cranny, and Fraser, do you realize how many of their college friends, a leading computer science university, work at big tech corporations?
The point is that throwing money at tech companies that sometimes (maybe often) in a real sense add almost no value to society and frequently mess it up, while making a stupid amount of money at a job you got cause you are buddies with some frat bro rich kid at Stanford who got in cause his parents payed the school for it is not an admirable thing. It may be the way the world works, and I'm glad she's doing well for herself, I hope to do the same for myself, but it is all a tad bit queer(gay).
You write like shiet. Stop hating because you’re dumb.
The point is that throwing money at tech companies that sometimes (maybe often) in a real sense add almost no value to society and frequently mess it up, while making a stupid amount of money at a job you got cause you are buddies with some frat bro rich kid at Stanford who got in cause his parents payed the school for it is not an admirable thing. It may be the way the world works, and I'm glad she's doing well for herself, I hope to do the same for myself, but it is all a tad bit queer(gay).
You write like shiet. Stop hating because you’re dumb.
ad hominem is one of the dumbest things you can do bud. You got any arguments against my point?
Her degrees both sounds like BS. A Bachelors in "Symbolic Systems with an emphasis on neurology" and a Master's in "management, science, and engineering".
So is she a symbologist, a neurologist, a manager, a scientist, or an engineer? All five? I'm actually asking. In which of these five areas of supreme mastery is she working in at the throw-money-at-tech-companies industry?
Just out of curiosity, what makes you think her degrees "sound like BS"? The description of the major? The degree requirements? The course list? The faculty? The jobs their graduates get? The name?
Whatever, it's cute to mock Fraser for having FIVE "areas of supreme mastery," but it's not very clever. In fact, it is, as the physicist Pauli used to say, "Not even wrong."
You made several mistakes in your count:
1) You counted her major (Symbolic Systems) and her concentration within her major (Neurology) separately. That's a really bad idea. Here's why:
Many topics, such as neurology, are so broad they can be studied from very different perspectives. As a result, students in different majors (Biology, Psychology, Symbolic Systems) learn about very different aspects of neurology. When Fraser says she majoried in "Symbolic Systems with an emphasis on neurology," she is telling people in the field a lot about what she does (and doesn't) know.
2) You made up the name of her graduate degree! You added a bunch of commas to the real name, which is: "Management Science and Engineering." I assume you see the difference.
A masters in MSE is basically an MBA for techies. It includes both a) techie approaches to problems that come up in all businesses (inventory control, serious data analysis, operations, and so on) and b) the management of tech/engineering companies.
3) In other words, instead of FIVE "areas of supreme mastery" she only has TWO. If that seems like one too many, remember: Many students do a professional graduate degree (MBA, JD, MD and so on) in different areas than their undergraduate degree.
I've said in another post when the move of BTC to Eugene was announced that there will be more departures from BTC with this move. Anyone on the brink of leaving or thinking of it will use this as an opportunity. I think only Cranny, Schweizer and Frerichs have shown no signs of wanting to leave BTC. At least on the womens side this is steadily dissolving. They went from the prime womens long distance club to having barely any athletes left. Kinda sad.
I glad Vanessa is back where she belongs. The San Francisco Bay Area is the undisputed center of world technology, innovation, culture, art. science, academics, sports, computers, finance, etc.
and high taxes and a high crime rate and a big homeless population.
I get the feeling that Nike is going to pull the plug on BTC after Paris. The Oregon job was a golden parachute for Schumacher and Flanagan. Most of the current roster will be done with track after 2024 and I don't think that Jerry wants a stable of aging marathon runners. Nike will fiscally take care of Fisher for the long haul, but most of the current group will retire or fall away.
This sounds like it could be correct. Would also explain why they have not really been adding any new members. Guys like Mo Ahmed (31), Centro (32), Jager (33), Kincaid (29) are at the end of, or are nearing the end of their primes. Fisher is really the only one that is both young and globally competitive.
Will be telling in the next year or so to see if they sign any of the top collegians. If not, I tend to agree that they are winding it down.
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