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Kim Scott worked for two of Silicon Valley's biggest tech firms.
I mean,
these two companies are maybe a 20-minute drive from each other.
They're very close.
In 2010,
she left a job at Google and took up a post at Apple.
On the face of it,
her former employer and her new one had a lot in common.
They're in the same place, basically.
And they hire, you know,
they're both tech companies, lots of engineers.
The similarities were obvious.
Same place, same industry, same talent pool.
But so were the differences.
And those differences could show up in unexpected ways.
Bicycles, for instance.