Björn Jeffery

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Japan’s under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren’t even dating, and increasing numbers can’t be bothered with sex. For their government, “celibacy syndrome” is part of a looming national catastrophe.

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The senior vice president of engineering raked in $10.3 million last year, just behind Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo’s $11.5 million, according to Twitter’s IPO documents. That is more than the paychecks of executives such as Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger, Chief Financial Officer Mike Gupta and Chief Operating Officer Ali Rowghani.

Welcome to Silicon Valley, where a shortage of top engineering talent amid an explosion of venture capital-backed start-ups is inflating paychecks.

There are several ways of reading this. Could be a clear sign of a big tech bubble. Or a more interesting take: that software engineering – considered by most regular companies as a commodity – is being valued on the same level as business and management. $10 million is a lot of money either way, but I think the reaction from people more stems from whom is getting paid that sum. Well paid executives in management is hardly news.

Edit: I know that an SVP of Engineering is management too, but the point here was how the area as a whole was valued.

Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent

There are numerous articles every week on how to scale and grow a company. Startup metrics, growth hacking, technology choices. While they are all important, there are many other traits that also affect the growth rate of a company. I would argue that trust is one of the most important ones.

Apple is – and, for at least the last 15 years, has been – focused exactly on the blind spot in the theory of low-end disruption: differentiation based on design which, while it can’t be measured, can certainly be felt by consumers who are both buyers and users.

It’s time for the theory to change.

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Naspers shares have risen 30-fold since 2003, making it the best-performing stock on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange