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by bob33212 7y ago
At the bottom of the PDF they say that the people who filled out the survey got "Marketing Extras". To get a good range of respondents you would have to give out cash to "Verified" SaaS executives during 2019. Which is w
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All they care about is getting you in a demo or free trial. After that all they care about is getting you to agree that the demo looks good. After that all they care about is getting you to agree that this product could be somehow useful in
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"We find null and empty values in your tables and Excel files and prompt your users to fix them" sounds like a 10 dollar idea. How are you going to get employees and investors to really jump on board with that. "We revolution
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It is far easier to understand the dimensions of hotel measurements than the dimensions of human intelligence.
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Consulting is an interesting one because there are people who would pity you for having to be away from your family dealing with corporate politics. Others may feel jealous of you high profile and high salary.
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A 3d vector of 2m by 8m by .1m can be projected on to a plane in a wide range of scalars. When someone says that someone else is smart because they got a 100 on a test they are taking a multidimensional attribute and projecting it onto a si
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by bob33212 7y ago
What are they waiting for?
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by bob33212 7y ago
What is crazy is to want to own a internal combustion engine car factory in the future. What happens when electric cars cost less to own and operate than a gas car? How is GM going to retool fast enough to keep up?
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by bob33212 7y ago
Some of us are not buying TSLA today because we like where the company is today. We buying because they like where the company may be in 5 years.
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Zero days are plentiful. But there are only a handful that you could buy today which could potentially give you access to a CEO's phone. The only other option is to build your own team to find a zero day for you, which is not cheap or
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by bob33212 7y ago
Right. How would you like it if someone 1000x richer than you decided that it was unfortunate that you were (Playing video games / watching netflix / eating unhealthy food ) too often and said that it is not that great that you g
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by bob33212 7y ago
It would be interesting to see if the CEO bailed if her pay was cut in half. Many CEOs are not in a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. So they can walk away if you cut their pay without looking like an asshole. Then the board is stuck looking
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10.5 create a deadline 13. Ask the team what we can do to make sure we don't have to miss the deadline
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They are good at pitching to investors.
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Just lean into that. Start automating peoples jobs or making their jobs irrelevant. The management will take note of the concerns of the others and put you in your own group. Now that you have established that you are 5x more productive tha
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Taleb talks about this in Anti-fragile. Rock Stars can wear whatever they want and it doesn't hurt them in their career. In contrast a lawyer or accountant could seriously hurt their career showing up to work with an unusual outfit on.
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I was lucky enough to see management get caught in their bullshit during one of these "hard deadlines" when I was just out of school. They said that December 1st was the deadline and that if we didn't get the release out we w
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With saas products you can call bullshit on these situations. The second time you are presented with a demand to produce feature X by date Z you can take a look at the results of the previous time that you were told that feature A needed to
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Size and lack of growth. If they are a 2 trillion dollar company they will not be able to grow nearly as much on a percentage basis at that point. Also it is harder to make big changes at large stable companies to respond to threats and lar
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by bob33212 7y ago
Tesla had the advantage of being the only car company which was 100% committed to electric at that time. 1000 a year is pretty good for luxury eco friendly car in 2009. Rivian cannot sit in the same place. They have to carve out some market
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It is simpler to manage a company without arrangements like this. It makes ICs and Level 1 managers more interchangeable. If you moved the 1M employee over to another group it would blow up that manager's budget. The more interchangeab
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by bob33212 7y ago
Live and learn. Ironically, I think a lot of people who took VC money will have the opposite experience. "If only they had more runway they could have found growth." I don't think that they are mutually exclusive. Some produc
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It is one thing to understand that you are not perfect and you could learn something from everyone and to respect your co-workers. It is another thing to be a legitimate expert and to not voice your opinion to avoid conflict. I have seen sm
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by bob33212 7y ago
There is a grey area where a non-technical manager wants to make a decision without understanding the long term impacts of that decision. Is the good engineer submissive here and go with the flow or does the good engineer put their foot dow
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This is a great explanation as to why small companies can be so much more efficient than large companies. If at a large company you as a low level employee notice that a 15 person department that could be outsourced to a SaaS product and le
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Great Article! There is far to few of these in the world. So many companies go under but keep their website and linked-in in a state that looks like they still exist.
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Agile and Scrum can add a lot of meetings and processes and metrics into a development team. For non-technical managers this is great because they can create nice charts with story points for upper management. The above comment can devolve
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by bob33212 7y ago
I interviewed at a well funded company for engineering manager. The interview centered around how they were going to build a 100 person team so the job would include lots of interviewing and hiring. I assume that some investor was told that
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I have been a huge fan of PG for 15 years. But early on I realized his advice about starting a company is similarly for people in a different situation. If I had rich supportive parents and no student debt I would certainly have started a c
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In that case the employer is going to hear " I want more money because I think you owe it to me". It is very easy for the employer to respond with "We don't feel the same way because X,Y and Z reasons or we cannot afford

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