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		ForHackernews on Jan 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Value is created by doing > As a rough guideline, it’s good to stay in roles where you’re close to the doing. Why? It seems to me like the further you are from the doing, the more likely your role is to be prestigious and highly paid.

dclara on Jan 17, 2014 [–]

It sounds so true. The it's the other way round. They have the prestige to talk and if you don't, you have to do it. At the end of the day, no doing, no talking. As a startup, we have to do both.

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