liztsai

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   HiOperator (YC S16) Is Hiring VP of Engineering(hioperator.breezy.hr)

   1 points by liztsai 4y ago
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   by liztsai 10y ago

   Most of the companies that we work with actually aren't in SF either. Think of it as an AWS analogue. If you are a company running some large predictable number of servers with a constant load, it's probably cheapest to just have
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   by liztsai 10y ago

   Thanks for the perspective! To be fair, we can't claim to have any experience running operations at the scale of thousands and thousands of agents - we think we know a way to get there someday soon. As a related tangent, one thing we d
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   by liztsai 10y ago

   Thanks for commenting - it’s good to get your take on things. We’d love to chat further if you’d like - ping us at hi@hioperator.com . A few quick thoughts though. We are committed to keeping support local - in this case in the US. We’re no
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   by liztsai 10y ago

   Our usual onboarding time is around a week although our record is 1 day for a company that was in a tight spot. We don't charge setup fees for most situations. It's built into the price and we want our customers to stick with us b
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   by liztsai 10y ago

   Hi there! This is Liz from HiOperator. We set out earlier this year to build a scalable US-based customer service solution that we would have used as startup founders ourselves. Would love your thoughts! Happy to answer any questions and te
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   by liztsai 10y ago

   If you're taking a protectionist view of their manufacturing business, China relaxing duties on finished goods would make sense. It's unclear (to me anyway) that that decision was made with the intent to spur raw aluminum exports
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   by liztsai 10y ago

   Heh, well, depends on whether or not the material was hedged in and how much flat price risk he took. He may very well have caught the market at a good time and storage/carry costs in Mexico should be low.
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   by liztsai 10y ago

   This is a simple duty arbitrage play. For anyone wondering what he actually did wrong, there are a few key points to note. Aluminum (and all materials, really) is exported and imported and duties are paid on the basis of the HS code and (if
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    by liztsai 10y ago

    Look pretty cool! Somehow between work and personal groups, the number of Slack teams I'm on has multiplied greatly. I'm guessing this might be more for intra-team Slack summaries but if it ever lives across teams, it would be awe