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Fair points, appreciate the insight. I think living in a tech bubble city clouds my thinking a bit much. The only real example I have good knowledge of (1 of 1
by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Fair points, appreciate the insight. I think living in a tech bubble city clouds my thinking a bit much.
The only real example I have good knowledge of (1 of 1 cases) is a tech friend who worked for a firm acquired by a company wanting to build out data centers, and in the end everyone left after their acquisition stock awards vested, before really adding value to the corporation and delivering on the promise, because the company did not have a "tech r&d" comp plan in place to keep the subject matter experts employed. In the end the project and the DC expansion fell short.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoI can appreciate that living in tech hot spots can tilt the understanding of certain domains. “Unknown unknowns” if you will. Most people I know who build datacenters don’t expect a tech R&D budget or outrageous compensation, as it’s general contracting, racking/stacking equipment, and infrastructure engineering (pxe booting, remote consoles, reimaging for OS and/over hypervisor, etc). Here’s a non-comprehensive list I generated on the fly yesterday of tech orgs who run their own datacenters or equipment in colos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16449973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16449973