• The higher you rise in the economy, the more your job revolves around taste.

  • Venture capital industry is a cash transfer to those with good taste in people.

  • A CEO’s core job functions are all driven by taste:

    • Recruiting requires good taste in people,
    • A vision requires good taste in business strategy,
    • Leading company culture requires good taste for what a productive work environment feels like.
  • The more refined your taste is, the faster your judgment. YC believes they can tell apart the winners from the losers in a ten-minute interview.

  • But Isn’t Is Taste Subjective?

  • It sounds a bit like Specific Knowledge but for identifying certain things.


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