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Facebook's 21-Year-Old Wunderkind Leaves For Google (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Facebook hired Michael Sayman for an internship when he was 17 years old, and gave him a full-time engineering job at 18. Now, the wunderkind is leaving for Alphabet's Google. He turned 21 last week. At Facebook, Sayman was a product manager who helped the social-media giant understand how his generation uses their phones, advising on experimental products for teens and helping executives understand trends. At Google, he'll be a product manager for Assistant, a voice-based service built on the search engine's giant database.
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Sure looks like it, its timed, and the initials match up.
"If he peaks at 35, he'll have 3 more decades of unfulfilling work. I'm aiming to peak at 55 so I can slide through my last decade."
He'll retire at 28, build his own rocket firm and build a space elevator.
Or he'll buy a yacht and fuck his brains out with supermodels.
He's not you..
If he gets the money. A product manager isn't typically given tons of options and the salary isn't necessarily the greatest. It's near the bottom of the management pecking order, and isn't a people management job usually. However, the job normally requires some actual working experience.
I have a friend who started as an intern and grew into a management and then VP position in less than a decade, on the basis if being there in the early startup days and having more knowledge of what was going on than any of the newer hires. But the lack of experience was evident, in engineering and management. Still a very bright person, just promoted 10 to 20 years too soon.