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“Having a PHD isn’t enough”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-08-02 14:00
What people underestimate is that having a PhD isn't enough. Like a lot of PhDs, they just aren't good at this type of work. There are a lot of body shops and recruiting shops in our space that basically just look whether you wrote down that you have a PhD on your resume and they'll just instantly give you work if so.But a lot of PhDs just aren't very good. Like I think 80% of the computer science PhDs I know, they write shitty code because they're only good at math and algorithms. And then you think about ...