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by chevman 5y ago
This is AI getting smarter, testing the edges.
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by chevman 5y ago
Makes your public metrics look better (ie "we have over 500+ customers!!!!") and also demonstrates (in theory) a more durable product. When people see small number of large customers, the implication is you are basically just runn
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by chevman 5y ago
The way I’ve seen this work well is for the prospective employee to state their intent (in writing, can even have HR include in the offer letter) before they accept the offer, as in “I will plan to use on average 12 weeks of PTO per year, c
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by chevman 5y ago
This is the type of corporate thinking characteristic of people who've been in their roles too long - over invested, myopic, and out of touch. The real question is, what is the end game for Zuckerberg and who takes over FB next? This
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by chevman 5y ago
Not refreshing for me either.
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by chevman 5y ago
Every company is screwed up. Every company is in the middle of some kind of evolution. You'll walk into situations you had no hand in creating. A big part of leadership is getting comfortable with this reality and understanding your ro
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by chevman 5y ago
“The Last Surprise” by Richard Brautigan The last surprise is when you come gradually to realize that nothing surprises you any more.
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by chevman 6y ago
At application/interview time, you're too late. Trick is to talk to all the existing product managers, and their managers, ahead of application/interview time and figure out what they need, when, and why. Do that, and the app
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by chevman 6y ago
All the big consultancies are pushing RPA, bots, automation etc HARd the last year in bigCo land. I think part of it is due to the wfh pandemic situation. I’d wait 6 months or so, the bottom could fall out of this category fairly quick.
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by chevman 6y ago
Sharepoint forms.
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by chevman 6y ago
Was interesting watching this happen today at a large Fortune xx that is a year or so in to wide scale Azure rollout. Took out Outlook, Teams and all meetings over the course of 5 minutes, then moved on to internal service alarms going off
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by chevman 6y ago
If you want to have fun, ask your insurance company and/or PBM (ie Rx insurance company) how they handle this scenario :)
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by chevman 6y ago
Easy come, easy go!
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by chevman 6y ago
Yeah, first thing I thought as well when I read this. Dude has $150MM annual ad budget and has never audited his vendors? Either total incompetence, or something shady was going on.
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by chevman 6y ago
Are folks not aware of the idea of a 'control' group or 'hold-out' group? It's easy to mathematically prove the effectiveness of some types of direct response digital advertising, such as what corporations are runn
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by chevman 6y ago
Started sometime earlier today - we got alerted by Salesforce deliverability team around 11am CST.
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by chevman 6y ago
I picked up one of these fanless cases, with aluminum heat sink built in, seems to work pretty well - https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-4-case
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by chevman 6y ago
Yeah, seems like the key point here is be careful architecting your infrastructure around a somewhat arbitrary construct like 'customer'. The relevant entity to scale around for Slack is likely 'active users' or even &#
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by chevman 6y ago
Lot of consolidation opportunity in the marketing/email/CRM space. Could fairly easily collapse all of the following into your SFDC stack if you add their Marketing Cloud (fka ExactTarget) module: MailChimp MailGun Mandrill Market
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by chevman 6y ago
T-Mobile has also not been approving new short codes on their network since earlier this year. Frustrating for folks trying to execute legit SMS comms.
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by chevman 6y ago
Yes, this is often times how business operates. Guess what, we meet with potential competitors in our market and sometimes even contract with them to provide services on our behalf, and use that to gauge the market and current solutions!
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by chevman 6y ago
Doreen - have always loved reading your comments on hacker news over the years. Very insightful and unique voice. Good luck on the new blog, will definitely subscribe. Only other person I regularly follow here, in addition to you, is gray
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by chevman 7y ago
Another vote for Cisco Webex here. Work at a large Fortune 10 company and have tried all the major players (I think) - Google, Teams, Skype, Zoom, GotoMeeting, Webex, Join.me, etc. Webex seems to be the least worst and is fairly reliable an
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by chevman 7y ago
Replying to myself here - evidently Israel is doing kind of what I was thinking about now: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/world/middleeast/israel-c...
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by chevman 7y ago
Why is Google (and for that matter Apple) not helping to track the prior movement of every coronavirus patient where possible to identify additional potentially exposed individuals? Seems fairly straightforward given their massive surveilla
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by chevman 7y ago
My prediction is that the first, really huge, AI breakout company will be the company that can figure out how to deploy AI to automate and scale data normalization/processing/integration pipelines and the resultant downstream feat
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by chevman 7y ago
https://litmus.com/
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by chevman 7y ago
Yeah, I've heard similar at the Fortune 10 where I work. We could barely get our legal/compliance/privacy team to meet with us on it. They said our approach is wait and see, that based on the verbiage they see basically no
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by chevman 7y ago
They don’t really exist. I’m mid career management and hire these types of roles. You go above $200k and you’re just wasting money. There may be a few random openings above this but nothing sustainable once folks realize the talent curve
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by chevman 7y ago
As someone who buys a fair amount of SaaS/Cloud/on-prem software (~$5-10 mil annual spend), the amount of B2B and recruiting spam I get is overwhelming. My public contact info is basically burned at this point - email, LinkedIn,

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