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Wayne Dai: Fair, Care, Share, and Why His Receptionist Has Stock Options
This week I have something special for you…I released this episode last season but think it deserves another post. Wayne Dai builds his company around a simple order: customers first, employees second, owners last. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of VeriSilicon, a Shanghai chip design company, and he told me how a childhood in Shanghai, a computer lab at Berkeley and a professor’s life shaped the way he treats people. Along the way he talks about why he is against the “996” work schedule, how he hires, and what a toy that tells stories offline says about where AI is going.
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