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by lefstathiou 4y ago
My unsolicited and uninformed opinion: Marriage is becoming a status symbol and I personally believe low birth rates are being driven by men more so than women. If you’re a medium to high earning male in NYC, there are so many women to choo
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
I’m not an expert in anything, just wild guesses projecting some of my biases: 1- significant portion of mass market retail becomes automated. Labor is getting too expensive and entitled. Everyone needs to hire no one wants to work and busi
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
I can’t think of any company that fits that profile that I’ve come across PR from. Mind sharing a few names?
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Where do people go to get roms of games they own these days?
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
We are in the market for an on prem OCR tool. Would you mind making a referral to your buddy? Email in my profile.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Auto companies cutting spending is just spite from competition which is understandable. What’s comical is the gall of General Mills, who has spent decades getting kids (myself included) addicted to sugar with manipulative advertising. It’s
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
To add to this, the lack of commitment is reciprocal. Employees can walk out the door any second... Stripe pulled these hundreds of employees from somewhere (I doubt they were all college grads). It's just business on both sides.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
What more do you want? They are paying out millions in cash ("out of the goodness in their heart"... ie they don't have to and people shouldnt expect) which is directly reducing the value of the equity, which impacts them mor
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
I believe hyperscaling is a factor here. I don't see how a company can successfully multiply their head count and integrate thousands of employees a year (unless you're already at massive scale like Amazon). When it falters, you&#
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
I need to read into this more… My understanding is that this was a take private so all stock was acquired already (ie vested options get paid and unvested get terminated at Close). This is exactly what would happen if you acquired our compa
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Doesn't seem like an insurmountable obstacle. From some Googling: "Employers who fail to provide notification must provide their laid-off employees with back pay and benefits for the period of the violation (which means the amount
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
This would be my preferred approach as an employee… get in, move quickly, then announce layoffs are done. From the beginning his investment thesis was that the headcount is extremely bloated (and from my perspective it’s hard to disagree),
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Technically not a “war”
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
My childhood best friend went into the Army to be a Ranger. He once told me that there is basically no higher priority event than a search and rescue mission. Down to a man, if you are captured, or at risk of capture, special forces and bla
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Hopping around is a red flag for our hiring process across every role (especially enterprise sales, which is my area of expertise). There are lots of little things it can indicate, all of which have legitimate exceptions that the folks on H
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Seems to me like the business is for sale. I don’t know how much of a brand this business is. I am a Coke guy if given a choice, but if all the stadium is offering is Pepsi so be it. I don’t recall ever seeing the brand of cheese melted on
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
IMO, security and accessibility are more objective ends than "responsible innovation" which can be plagued by bias and personal agendas.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Long live the creativity, originality and whimsicalness of the internet of the 90s...
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
I’ve been in NYC 18 years (went to college here) minus a 1 year stint in Miami. I grew up in Atlanta. I’m married with two kids under three. I absolutely love it here… You either love NYC or you hate it and thankfully you will know where yo
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
This seems like a predictable reaction from a party that has observed how casually tech and media companies are willing to cancel or censure their content and point of view. Once the boundaries are crossed, it’s difficult to uncross them.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
All roles and offices outside of UA require in-office. We are making exception for UA team given the circumstances. Our CTO is in NYC but we have a local leadership team.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Early on (during Covid) I made the decision that remote work was not for our company (SAAS for financial services) and two years in have zero regrets about it. We are clear about our expectations so there are no surprises to employees and n
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
From my observation, the best way to access top doctors is via referrals from people who have legacy wealth, as opposed to being just rich.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
The job market is a marketplace. Workers have a right to say no, employers have a right to hire someone else... so ask your employer in plain english what is expected from you and should they deviate from that, go somewhere else. If someone
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Of course.
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Happy to chat about what I took away and put lessons learned from these in practice. You can't use all the tools all the time but we routinely do and the value created has been enormous.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
I led sales at our company and have sold many (tens of) millions of enterprise software. Not all lessons carry over to every company / product / buyer group but below are my high level thoughts. I am happy to take this offline as
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
In theory yes. Ultimately they need to be in the hands of someone who cares (which in theory the auction accomplishes). Hundred year old books and manuscripts need to be stored in the proper conditions or they deteriorate quickly. My animat
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Re resources: check out this site which has a list of all active places to buy cels and how to maintain them: www.neotokyo.com Re fakes: The community is good about helping but hard to seek their advice without it tipping your hand. Some ve
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Random musings: I collect “old books” and have for years. My excitement for the hobby changed about two years ago when I was watching a Sotheby’s auction dismantle an epic collection that was a life’s passion and work to assemble of autogra

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