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by sage76 10y ago
In your opinion, is the same thing going to happen to Stitchfix? They are nearing unicorn status but they have warehouses and they own inventory.
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This. I don't understand why some people think companies are entitled to get people for whatever wage they seem fit. If you can't afford it, tough luck. Let market forces decide what people are to be paid.
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Agree to disagree I suppose. Engineers have the technical skills to look into basic financial and budgeting, and there are financial planning guys involved in big projects to do the really in depth stuff if required. A degree will not fix t
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by sage76 10y ago
Hate to be blunt, but first of all, the things you pointed out are really common knowledge/common sense, and secondly, most of these are not necessary to be an engineering manager at all. 'No alpha' is something that even War
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by sage76 10y ago
I think I just had a flashback to some meetings where my EM would spout this jargon endlessly. 30,000 ft view indeed. No wonder the basic stuff never got fixed, when you're head's in the stratosphere, even a tornado on the ground
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by sage76 10y ago
You could say the same about a big legal case or a surgery. In both cases, lives can be on the line. Here it's just code. It became scary for me when I saw extremely poor leadership that disregarded everything from Andy Grove's hi
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by sage76 10y ago
The MBA would probably be cheaper and definitely less of a commitment, especially an executive MBA. Te reverse this trend, engineers really need to look at management as an important function. I don't see lawyers and doctors doing MBAs
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by sage76 10y ago
Not sure if I should directly name. You can google my info and quickly find out which startup it is.
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At a unicorn I was working at, MBAs were being hired to be engineering managers. I did not see a single engineer promoted to management, it was mostly all MBAs. The few I had direct contact were really useless at helping engineers out, all
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by sage76 10y ago
Sam - In your experience, how much time does it take for founders to get rid of a co-founder who isn't performing up to par? Is it a decision by consensus? Or does the CEO take the call? How do they evaluate each other when everyone is
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by sage76 10y ago
This was a frequently asked question, answered by Adora Cheung in a Q&A with all partners of YC. According to her, domain expertise is not something that should hold you back. You should, however, become an expert within 1-2 years. But
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by sage76 10y ago
"This is closer to the real root cause. Today's startup culture (and the nature of the VC game) incentivises "faking it", delusional over-confidence, and pseudo-idealism that crashes into reality in an ugly fashion.&quot
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I'm wondering if people here disagree with any of the names on the list, and if so, why.
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Exactly this. We have revenues and repeat users and yet, we got rejected everywhere. Some places want a "world domination vision", others (even supposedly great investors) are just blindly running after buzzwords ("Revenues?
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by sage76 10y ago
Were there other companies that attempted what Stitchfix is doing? Trunkclub and Stitchfix were early movers in this space as far as I am aware and others have copied them. Didn't get your point regarding whole sellers. As far as I und
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by sage76 10y ago
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but weren't some stats released a while back that said that 50% of the startups accepted by YC had been referred to them by the YC alumni network?
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by sage76 10y ago
I always wonder about DSC. The blades are not theirs and there's nothing really groundbreaking in their tech. So why are they getting valued like a tech company?
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I don't get this acquisition. They are in losses and there is no intellectual property to speak of. A somewhat funny video and a mailing list are now worth a billion dollars?
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This is exactly the problem I have too. I get interview questions like "You have to design xyz system, such that junior devs can start building it. How would you do it?" I find it very tough to answer them unless I have personally
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by sage76 10y ago
Another article : http://thehustle.co/why-wework-is-worth-so-much Quote : "Boston Properties, the largest publicly-traded office real estate company, owns 47 million square feet of office space and has a market cap of
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by sage76 10y ago
I don't know how this real estate company is being valued like a tech company. Having a website and online booking now somehow seems to make you a tech company. I guess we should just party like it's 99.
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Wework is now valued at 16B dollars(cnbc.com)
1 points by sage76 10y ago|3 comments
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Meet Wish, the $3B App That Could Be the Next Walmart(recode.net)
3 points by sage76 11y ago|0 comments
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by sage76 11y ago
If by at most once, you mean all the subscribers get the message once and once only, yes, that's what they wanted. I tried this in java anyway and didn't get very far. Defined the classes for publisher, consumer and queue. Then wa
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Ask HN: Do interviewers expect this much expertise or am I that bad a programmer?
13 points by sage76 11y ago|10 comments