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by corry 3y ago
Isn’t the decision to either fire the executives/CEO or others the domain of the owners of the company? And perhaps rightly so? It’s not like shareholders/boards LIKE paying CEOs more than they otherwise could - especially if perf
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by corry 3y ago
Good point, if your options are underwater you probably aren't exercising... although would be sad to watch them expire.
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by corry 3y ago
The decline in employee option exercise... is that the canary in the mine? If the team itself is saying less and less that their company's equity is worth taking a risk on -- and they are in a good position to be optimistic, rightly or
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by corry 3y ago
The advice is generally that (1) ideas are worthless until they are well-implemented (and even then, might be worthless); (2) if your idea is truly so easily-copyable, then it's probably not an idea worth trying to protect; and (3) you
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by corry 3y ago
While I think parent confused dopamine and serotonin, I'd echo this sentiment. In the rave community terms like "blue Monday" or the grimmer "suicide Tuesday" are there for a reason. Many people have a week or even
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by corry 3y ago
Could it be that the initial set of M1s was just “too good”? Mine is several years old now and I have zero desire to upgrade to an M2 or whatever we’re at. It’s so fast and snappy, even when doing 300k row DB updates (to pick a potentially
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by corry 4y ago
I just googled when our ancestors started using tools. It’s 2,500,000 years ago. My god.
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by corry 4y ago
Right, but homo sapiens go back 200,000 (!!!) years. That’s a lot of hunting and gathering, shamans, generations, and gradual process where life wasn’t changing much generation to generation (for thousands of iterations). And here we are go
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by corry 4y ago
One is struck by the sheer raw amount of time that this woman was separated from us (9,000 years). How many hundreds or thousands of generations of our ancestors lived in this almost completely different world? And how advanced our technolo
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by corry 4y ago
Quite a read. I enjoyed it. He describes the point of view you get in certain altered states very well, poetically and with subtly that matches my experiences. I’m sure strict materialists will find his characterization of them unsatisfying
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by corry 4y ago
Sales and Marketing costs ARE the CAC. It's literally (Sales&Marketing Costs) / (Number of Clients Added) for a given period.
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by corry 4y ago
The problem is that if LTV <= CAC -- let alone under the 3:1 ratio -- you aren't making any gross margin/profit. LTV = the expected cashflows on a gross margin basis, for the life of the customer. If you get $100 @ 80% gross ma
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by corry 4y ago
Yes I think so! Thanks
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by corry 4y ago
I get where you're coming from, but since the dawn of SaaS we've had rules of thumb about LTV-to-CAC, CAC payback period, etc. Most SaaS founders know that a 3:1 ratio between LTV and CAC is ideal - and while arguments might hold
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by corry 4y ago
I forget which podcast I heard it on (so forgive me if my memory is sloppy), but after their latest quarterly report didn't CAC payback go from 24 months to something wild like 10 years? Meaning their new ARR add rapidly fell off so qu
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by corry 4y ago
Their point is that for an individual, yes, it's not that much of a deterrent - but that individual can only park poorly with 1 car at a time. The USPS has a fleet of many (hundreds of thousands?) vehicles, so their capacity to ruin it
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by corry 4y ago
Thanks! I'll give it a try. V1 sounds frustrating since those use-cases are precisely what I do with Illustrator lol.
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by corry 4y ago
Has anyone switched to Affinity Designer from Illustrator for vector work (logos, svg, icons, etc) and liked it? I've been avoiding paying for Illustrator given the extreme monthly cost for my use-case, but found Inkspace and other alt
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by corry 4y ago
Key is to position the product evolution from this point as a journey, with discrete steps/periods on a quasi-roadmap, and make it clear to them that they as users/clients will help shape that journey. So picture a slide with 4 st
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by corry 4y ago
The issue is Job's training data is likely 99% his public "presentation voice" audio -- cadence, inflection, emphasis from public remarks at Apple events, commencement addresses, shareholder meetings, etc -- which OF COURSE s
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by corry 4y ago
Of course everyone's different, but to me "hallucinate" is a bit too strong of an expectation anyways. Or perhaps "hallucinate" is technically accurate, but I've found that uninitiated people expect to have cra
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by corry 4y ago
Ah this article put the finger on why I don't trust my 'new dentist': The operation is just too slick from a business POV. As someone familiar with SaaS or in general this kind of recurring business model, you can sense all t
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by corry 4y ago
This reminds me of how the shroom dispensaries popped up in Vancouver because City Council has barred the police force from enforcing psilocybin prohibition (ostensibly so that police can focus on opioids instead, although any positive outc
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by corry 4y ago
Well, actually -- and I think you'd agree -- he truly died whether or not he resurrected. So my point stands, death rate is 100%. ;)
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by corry 4y ago
One of my favourite quotes (no idea who made it) is that in all of human history, the death rate is exactly 100%. Outside of people's religious beliefs (Jesus, Lazarus, etc) and fiction (vampires, sci-fi, etc), we'd all agree that
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by corry 4y ago
I disagree. If anything, most of us NEED reminding that our time is limited and precious, and that our circumstances can change in an instant. The practical value of me after reading this (YMMV) is that I'll be a bit more present, do m
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by corry 4y ago
I would be BEYOND shocked if any decent VC is hiring off cold applications even for basic entry-level positions. In fact, it's almost definitely a bad sign because it means that despite the VC's job being connected to capital, con
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by corry 4y ago
I agree this is closer to the root of the problem. It's not just foreign capital, or faceless corporate ownership (although both are part of it). IMO it's that every professional / business / owner / wealthy person
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by corry 5y ago
"You can't outrun a bad diet" - this right here. Yes, regular exercise is important (lifting + some light cardio like power walking); but the real battle is around your food intake. Find a way of eating that works for you. Ma
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by corry 5y ago
Curious if others have had this experience too - many successful founder CEOs I've known through my career (working closely with them) are excellent at ball-parking / order-of-magnitude / back-of-napkin thinking off the top o

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