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Adobe Premiere for my core workflow, a little bit of Davinci for color grading, Audition for sound and Aftereffects as well

I was on the monetization team at CZcams back in 2013 as the skippable ad format was starting to scale

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There’s another misleading statement in the first minute. (And listen, I neither currently work for McK nor mean to accuse you of twisting that first story to seem more preposterous to the audience-maybe you just had an anomalous bizarro-world experience?) Re: agonizing over ‘how to tell the story’ vs. getting things done… The biggest adjustment for many new hires at McK is (cliche incoming) 80-20 work habits. While not often explicitly highlighted, one of the main value props of McK is working 10x faster than their clients. And, frankly, their work IS telling a story. So, while there is a lot of energy spent on ‘crafting the storyline,’ it is absolute gospel to spend no energy on things that ‘don’t matter.’ And I think you’re trying to imply that a lot of time (i.e., billing) goes into low-value-add BS. Not to mention that McK consultants literally send their slides to be formatted by a dedicated team in India in order to preserve their time for “gettin things done” !

@@Theo-W-91 Thanks for your extremely thoughtful comments! A couple clarifications: 1) I am not implying that communication is not important at all, in large organizations this is paramount to impact. I'm just suggesting that I personally like just the autonomy of taking quick action, and am not good at/nor enjoy the process of communicating in a way to bring several functional groups and teams along for the journey just to get incremental progress on a massive ship that takes a lot to course correct.

2) the EM I worked for was fired right after the project I worked with him on. So while I did speak correctly, I don't necessarily believe he was the norm. He wanted "busy" slides because he thought simple slides came across as un-intelligent. He was certainly the worst and most insecure manager I worked with.

@@nogatekeepers Got it. Well your video does nothing to dispel the notion that this manager was the rule rather than the exception. By leading with this anecdote (“We don’t… at McKinsey”), you quite directly imply that McK packs ‘filler’ content into tiny fonts to satisfy a crazy rule (<= 10pt font size) that inherently reads to the audience as unnecessarily dense and even dishonest… when in fact the opposite is true. The point I’m making is you must be doing that on purpose as it’s a clear choice. E.g., you must have worked with other managers; you must have heard a very different spirit of slide guidelines; it’s even hard to imagine that you didn’t hear feedback directly contradicting what your manager told you with regard that very slide. More cynically , I’d just say it’s very hard to believe that someone who made it to manager would ever say “we always do [something we in fact never do] here at McKinsey.” Think of what would have to be true for that to happen… Anyway hopefully I’ve articulated why this font thing actually matters in the context of not only your video, but in the cottage industry of McK “insider” memoirs…

@@Theo-W-91 The EM was actually a direct to EM hire from external. I do say in the video not every one is like this at McK

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@@nogatekeepers maybe it's because I have airpods, but... little details. Thanks.

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Arthur* Andersen* was an accounting firm

@@Theo-W-91 Anderson was accounting, consulting, software development and systems engineering and deployment. They developed and owned mainframe software systems that managed worldwide product distribution. It was called DCS (Distribution Control System). Like I said, it was there until it wasn’t.

@@bobgaston1 You’re still spelling it wrong- but Andersen got in trouble for endorsing (certifying) fraudulent accounting practices as Enron’s auditor. Their legacy consulting business still exists today (at Accenture I believe)

@@bobgaston1 If you want to make a point, you could point out that the CEO of Enron, who concocted many of the crimes that brought Andersen down, WAS a McKinsey consultant- who advised Enron before leaving to work there. Fun fact

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Yeah I think best to try to break into tech (where there are tons more jobs) first before trying to get into vc

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@@nogatekeepers in the meantime Wayne, could you maybe do a video on what exactly drives unscrupulous, unethical VC's to do shenanigans like, sell the land and building and turn around and rent the same assets to the company?? This is like someone putting you to perform on stage on a small rug and then sneaking up behind you and pulling that rug from under you and expect you to keep performing. Is the ROI pressure that high that VC's are forced to recoup losses by any means necessary??

@@bzmrgonz Hmm I'm not sure I've seen a ton of that, although it does happen and tends to be a tier 3 VC phenomenon serving founders who unfortunately have a harder time accessing capital. I was actually planning on doing a video on why VCs behave badly, and the unique incentive structure (E.g. super long decade-plus feedback loops) that drive this

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So sorry to hear that. Agree with you

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