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by polote 4y ago
Is expoding offers worse than being fired on the first day at your job? If not then why does it bring so much hate? At least more hate than just firing people. Honest question
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by polote 4y ago
Very HN article. The only job that matter in an organization is developers, product managers are useless, marketing is when you don't have a product, sales people are liars, Support people prevent developers to know the problems and so
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by polote 4y ago
Yeah i should have said the second pool chance list https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
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by polote 4y ago
Weird that this post was included in the pool as it gained significant tractions 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31570698
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by polote 4y ago
> but it really seems like they’re on constant defense now and have a very tough lift to actually get something truly mass market What about the metaverse ? :) Isn't it something not defensing and mass market ? I feel like you are r
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by polote 4y ago
And good luck selling enterprise software to Apple, Google and Facebook, they all already have some custom internal softwares for everything
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by polote 4y ago
I really struggle to believe all this thing. We have some inflation because of covid stimulus and Ukraine war, sure. So the fed is going to increase the rate, sure. And everyone is panicking at the same time so markets are falling. Poor peo
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by polote 4y ago
If we renamed "SPA" to "using a framework for the frontend" we may be able to stop having so many of these discussions. What is a "page" in an app like Tiktok ? Is Tiktok a SPA or just a single page with an app
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by polote 4y ago
The Uber app alone would probably need much more than 30 developers, see here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
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by polote 4y ago
At 4 saas b2b unicorns mostly between 5m and 50m arr. + interviews with people working in hr and culture at other ones. And to give you more concrete data, the significant employees where : 1. The ceo founder (work hard play hard culture) b
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by polote 4y ago
You can be very talented and do a ton of work without having a bigger business impact than another person doing 50% less than you. At the end whether you have a design system, if you have infinite scalability, if you use node or Ruby, havin
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by polote 4y ago
> Surely many others were brilliant contributors to Stripe's becoming a $95B unicorn, and staying one, beyond just the Collison Brothers. From my experience working at several saas unicorns, in each companies there was 2-3 max peopl
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by polote 4y ago
When you leave something you have put so much effort in, and the future doesn't look good then you feel regret. When the future looks good you are usually proud. But no, you don't feel pressure to build it again. Because first thi
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by polote 4y ago
Among the 900 a lot of them are drivers at the Bolt delivery company (So not the same one)
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by polote 4y ago
Github is not a competitor to Gitlab, they offer some similar services but overall it is not the same value proposition
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by polote 4y ago
It is also the exact same thing with text. Articles that are well written will be much more liked by readers
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by polote 4y ago
What's the point of being vc funded and profitable? By definition if you are profitable you don't need external capital to exist and thus don't need vc money
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by polote 4y ago
> If I was a staff rider, I'd be putting that helmet on and telling Pedal Me to eat an OSHA-sized bag of dicks if they have a problem with it. And then they would fire you and you will have to find a company that allow helmets and e
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by polote 4y ago
At my scale, I know that when I go mountain biking, when I have an helmet, I go faster and take much more risk than when I don't have an helmet. I don't have any data point about road biking, because I never wear a helmet. But thi
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by polote 4y ago
People who tell you that social tagging doesn't work would have tell you that Wikipedia can't work. Social tagging can probably work but we haven't found a way yet
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by polote 4y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29130017
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by polote 4y ago
The other way to look at it, is that if the company starts to give up a product-first market to an enterprise market it is because they are loosing or struggling to keep their customers in their first market and so they dont have the best p
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by polote 4y ago
This is clearly not the enterprise playbook. The enterprise playbook is to sell on slides, iterate with a few customers and go after even bigger customers. Start small and trying to go upmarket is the normal playbook for a b2b smb company t
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by polote 4y ago
Maybe not the the acquisition itself but for what it represents. If someone is willing to pay to acquire something that your built it is usually a proof that what you built is useful.
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by polote 4y ago
It makes 100% sense to be hungry while you are on diet. The opposite would be surprising. But you are even hungry now that you are not on a diet. Do you prefer to be hungry and obese or be hungry and not be obese ? Not saying that it is jus
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by polote 4y ago
But this is not true, it is not more sales that fix the problem it is more sales that are -successfully selling- that fix it. I've seen companies where more sales has amplified the problem EDIT: I use Sales as a shorthand for "Sal
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by polote 4y ago
> 1. Few business problems can't be solved by more sales. This obviously completely wrong. The only problem that can be solved by mores sales is when your are not selling enough. And even in this case just having more sales not alwa
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by polote 4y ago
If you are in B2B Enterprise, just having a quarterly meeting with your customers vs having none can be the difference between a success and a failure for this customer. All business are different, there is not one road to success, there ar
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by polote 4y ago
I have no proof, but it is probably with Youtube trying to compete with Tiktok. There are more originals content on Tiktok and on Tiktok any user can easily publish content. So it would make sense that Youtube is trying to favor new creator
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by polote 4y ago
It always baffles me that companies which struggle hiring, can take the decision to reject a candidate like him during the screening process ...

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