Are companies drawing the wrong lessons from the AI talent war? AI labs are offering $100 million bonuses to poach talent from each other. Founders are locking down NDAs, banning non-competes, and telling executives to stay off outside boards. Linda Rottenberg says that instinct is exactly backwards. In her new piece for incmagazine, she traces it back to two tech hubs that made opposite bets decades ago. One hoarded talent and collapsed. Nobody remembers its name today. The other shared it and became Silicon Valley. We’ve watched the same bet pay off inside our own network. A founder who spent years building alone in Grand Rapids started talking to other founders instead of guarding his ideas. Last week, his company Altruist sold to Vanguard for $4 billion+. This is the Multiplier Effect in practice: success only compounds when you share it. Read the full piece through the link in our bio. #Elsewhere #MultiplierEffect #Entrepreneurship #BuildingElsewhere