It’s 2024 and that means smart people are circling back to age-old common sense ideas, and it’s becoming “new.”
Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI in 2016, is making new friends and gaining praise for his tech company’s vision statement where he coined a new term to combat DEI, which stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Wang’s phrase is DEI’s new nemesis: MEI, for Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence:
Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.
This is the email I’ve shared with our @scale_AI team.
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MERITOCRACY AT SCALE
In the wake of our fundraise, I’ve been getting a lot of questions…
— Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) June 13, 2024
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