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Why do you think he found less quality talent in Argentine? It's just cost of living there is less and smaller salary could be enough.
by aquadrop 14y ago
Why do you think he found less quality talent in Argentine? It's just cost of living there is less and smaller salary could be enough.
- suyash 14y agoArgentine? I think you did not get the point. I meant he most likely does not respect quality talented programmers in Canada and think paying 75K for his 1st engineer is overpriced, he is viewing the problem from only one lens: money.
- davidandgoliath 14y agoHe's viewing the problem from one lens: runway. Lower upfront costs equal a greater chance of survival for a startup. What's the issue in that? Not all of us have access to gigantic amounts of liquidity for our hobby-shops.
- MetaCosm 14y agoNo, he looks at it one way: value. If he can get a SMARTER, MORE EXPERIENCED, CHEAPER developer in Argentina, why on earth would he hire a Canadian developer?
- suyash 14y agohis post only emphasizes on one point: CHEAPER. He himself acknowledges there are more talented and experienced people in Canada but he won't hire them.
- MetaCosm 14y ago" I didn’t choose guys that were second best to those here in Canada, I selected the cream of the crop. " -- please quote me where in the article he said there are more talented and experienced people in Canada.... He said there was talent in Canada at (at least) 4x that cost.
- suyash 14y ago"Finding the right talent in Canada wasn’t difficult. That’s right, it was easy to find. Talent was plentiful. There were extremely intelligent and capable developers." -- He clearly says that there were plentiful dev's in Canada who were extremely intelligent. I think you are confused, 'more' here means quantity and not quality, although the latter was also plentiful.