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You’ve been in tech for too long when 1 million USD is your smallest unit.
by plufz 3y ago
You’ve been in tech for too long when 1 million USD is your smallest unit.
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- noodlesUK 3y agoI wonder why they decided to call it 0.1M USD rather than 100k USD. For many of us, a million dollars is a large amount of money, even for a business.
- mattlondon 3y agoSame reason things are x.99 - the 0.1 decimal "feels" smaller than seeing 100,000 - "holy fuck!" Etc
- plufz 3y agoI’m sure they had their reasons, but all I can see is the Simpsons meme with Mr Burns at the ATM saying “What’s the smallest amount of money I can think of? A thousand dollars.” ;)
- IshKebab 3y agoIt's to imply that it costs other people in the millions, but they did it for only 0.1 million, which is a small number of millions. Just a rhetorical trick.
- oceanplexian 3y ago100k isn’t worth anywhere near what it used to due to inflation. It might get you a nice pickup truck or a kitchen remodel. If your business is doing research and can’t spend then it’s more of a hobby than a business.
- uptownfunk 3y agoWell, it's interesting to think about how much has been invested into BigModel companies (Anthropic, Perplexity, OpenAI) when it's very rapidly becoming commoditized.