anthony-james

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by anthony-james 10y ago
If a key part of your organizational strategy is to tax companies more than your peers and get sad when they leave, you're probably the United States government.
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by anthony-james 10y ago
TL;DR: CNBC either doesn't know how to value companies, or is using a 50% discount rate. Either of these is concerning. Disclosure: I'm using data from their 2015 Annual reports[0] Valuing the stock requires at least 2 subjective
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by anthony-james 10y ago
Schedule a private 1-on-1, and tell her point blank, "I've noticed that you do <X/Y/Z> to me and it makes me uncomfortable. Why do you do <X/Y/Z> to me?" Either she'll explain why she&#x27
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by anthony-james 10y ago
Precisely my point - by monopolizing 80% of the employee market, a company can prevent the competition from scoring :)
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by anthony-james 10y ago
The true value of the employee to an organization in a non-monopoly industry is 300k, in this example, because of the opportunity cost of the employee (assuming they could provide the same value at other firms). The true value of the employ
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by anthony-james 10y ago
Ah - good find, I'll edit my prior response.
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by anthony-james 10y ago
It does assume these things - but they're relatively reasonable. If your next closest competitor is doing worse than you, then your best employees, on average, must be better than their average employee. If an employee leaves your comp
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by anthony-james 10y ago
I think it's more of anticipation for the future. If a company cuts overhead for something big, say, a corporate holiday party from $100k to $80k, some may be frustrated, but it's probably because they recognize the waste in hosti
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by anthony-james 10y ago
As an accountant, I feel like employees are severely underpaid in highly-skilled markets (like tech, not accounting), and I think that companies don't actually capture the true cost of a single full time employee. Most see a salary, be
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by anthony-james 10y ago
The fallacy is when people use the size of a market as support of why they should enter it, sort of like this: Founder: "We should enter X market! It has $1 Trillion worth of annual business." VC: "It must be heavily saturate
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by anthony-james 10y ago
This is essentially the entire article, without the clickbait or ads.