As a sorta informed outsider, conceptually this makes intuitive sense. But in practice, how does this work? It seems a lot of the intuition breaks down if we don't assume it's network (aka 1 vendor). Fundamentally it's…
The main under appreciated influence in all this is how much talent can reinforce work. There are outliers on either side (pure talent, pure work) if you squint, but ultimately the best of the best are the ones who are…
> Was it agreed by some salespeople without the knowledge of legal / management? Never worked for either company, but there's a zero percent chance. Legal agrees to bespoke terms and conditions on contracts (or…
> Support is typically low paid because it's a lot of effort for little reward, no matter how much you pay someone in support, there's only so much impact they can have on the bottom line. As someone who was in Support…
For background, RFPs are not value neutral. It is not uncommon for customers who have a preferred vendor to shape the RFP to fit in a more natural way to the preferred vendor. To use a simplified example: you want a web…
Beyond salary, there is a whole industry of data brokers who get transactional data from individual participants in an industry vertical (CPG, Health Insurance, Salary, etc), aggregate it with their competitors and…
This isn't a Github project with a MIT license. When you do B2B software, there aren't software licenses, there are contractual terms and conditions. The T&Cs outline any number of elements but including SLAs, financial…
> There was a stark contrast between those of us who had designed our projects completely ourselves, and those who had significant mentors/lab affiliations. Love to see someone confirming my cynicism. In high school, a…
Same at my local Home Depot. Shut down regular registers, self check-out being run as a normal register. Outside of time sensitive shops, I'll go 10 minutes out my way to avoid this.
Let's not use the term "trophy hunting". It's analogous to calling an OBGYN an "abortionist". People hunt for all sorts of reasons. The question is often not whether X number of a particular animal will be killed, the…
The same is true in technical sales. Obviously you need a sufficiently technical background to be able to _do_ stuff, but the primary value you bring is probe further than "we want to do X". The prospect / customer has…
Funnily enough, Disney+ is built by BAMTech who is a spin-off of MLB Advanced Media (ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Streaming ).
From someone who does enterprise technical sales for a B2B company: Identity Management is a major area of concern for GCP / GSuite, at least in the enterprise space, especially for the low to moderately technical folks…
Winner, winner. I am at a competitor of Tableau's, but the point remains the same. One of our favorite quotes was an upper executive at a major technology retailer who told us a version of "it's so cheap to fail with…
I really think you are narrowly looking at things from near the peak of earning potential and an established career track. That's fine for some and this _is_ a tech oriented site, but still seems rather narrowly…
> The massive spike in the value of bitcoin should have set off alarm bells as it was a clear sign of excess money sloshing around in the system chasing returns. Alternative view as someone who's been following crypto…
This thread was brought up in a segment on one of the most popular sports podcasts, Pardon My Take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAisGRcTCyY
HackerNews x PMT isn't a cross-over I ever envisioned.
Source for those curious about this: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1222646...
As an example for the detractors, Subaru has disabled components in response to the Massachusetts right to repair law: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/recent-developments-in-the...
> I have been interested in software sales as well but that seems like it could be hard to break into as an engineer. I am currently in technical sales (Presales is the name of my org). This absolutely is not the case.…
A buyer's premium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyer%27s_premium for background, https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/the-constitutio... for the details) ? Some quick and dirty maths suggest the final price to…
> Like librarians Funny you should mention librarians. It is not uncommon for any role which is titled "librarian" to require a masters of library science / information science. Example job ad:…
In hip fashion circles, I've seen it crop up regularly. Dadcore, Normcore and the like. I've always taken it to mean the synthesized essence of an aesthetic, or at least the adherents believe that to be the case.
I can't comment on your particular situation, but my partner and I just went through this (closed in May 2021). Our thought-process was that we would only purchase if we could: - Plan to live there for 5-10 years - Plan…
As a sorta informed outsider, conceptually this makes intuitive sense. But in practice, how does this work? It seems a lot of the intuition breaks down if we don't assume it's network (aka 1 vendor). Fundamentally it's…
The main under appreciated influence in all this is how much talent can reinforce work. There are outliers on either side (pure talent, pure work) if you squint, but ultimately the best of the best are the ones who are…
> Was it agreed by some salespeople without the knowledge of legal / management? Never worked for either company, but there's a zero percent chance. Legal agrees to bespoke terms and conditions on contracts (or…
> Support is typically low paid because it's a lot of effort for little reward, no matter how much you pay someone in support, there's only so much impact they can have on the bottom line. As someone who was in Support…
For background, RFPs are not value neutral. It is not uncommon for customers who have a preferred vendor to shape the RFP to fit in a more natural way to the preferred vendor. To use a simplified example: you want a web…
Beyond salary, there is a whole industry of data brokers who get transactional data from individual participants in an industry vertical (CPG, Health Insurance, Salary, etc), aggregate it with their competitors and…
This isn't a Github project with a MIT license. When you do B2B software, there aren't software licenses, there are contractual terms and conditions. The T&Cs outline any number of elements but including SLAs, financial…
> There was a stark contrast between those of us who had designed our projects completely ourselves, and those who had significant mentors/lab affiliations. Love to see someone confirming my cynicism. In high school, a…
Same at my local Home Depot. Shut down regular registers, self check-out being run as a normal register. Outside of time sensitive shops, I'll go 10 minutes out my way to avoid this.
Let's not use the term "trophy hunting". It's analogous to calling an OBGYN an "abortionist". People hunt for all sorts of reasons. The question is often not whether X number of a particular animal will be killed, the…
The same is true in technical sales. Obviously you need a sufficiently technical background to be able to _do_ stuff, but the primary value you bring is probe further than "we want to do X". The prospect / customer has…
Funnily enough, Disney+ is built by BAMTech who is a spin-off of MLB Advanced Media (ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Streaming ).
From someone who does enterprise technical sales for a B2B company: Identity Management is a major area of concern for GCP / GSuite, at least in the enterprise space, especially for the low to moderately technical folks…
Winner, winner. I am at a competitor of Tableau's, but the point remains the same. One of our favorite quotes was an upper executive at a major technology retailer who told us a version of "it's so cheap to fail with…
I really think you are narrowly looking at things from near the peak of earning potential and an established career track. That's fine for some and this _is_ a tech oriented site, but still seems rather narrowly…
> The massive spike in the value of bitcoin should have set off alarm bells as it was a clear sign of excess money sloshing around in the system chasing returns. Alternative view as someone who's been following crypto…
This thread was brought up in a segment on one of the most popular sports podcasts, Pardon My Take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAisGRcTCyY
HackerNews x PMT isn't a cross-over I ever envisioned.
Source for those curious about this: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1222646...
As an example for the detractors, Subaru has disabled components in response to the Massachusetts right to repair law: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/recent-developments-in-the...
> I have been interested in software sales as well but that seems like it could be hard to break into as an engineer. I am currently in technical sales (Presales is the name of my org). This absolutely is not the case.…
A buyer's premium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyer%27s_premium for background, https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/the-constitutio... for the details) ? Some quick and dirty maths suggest the final price to…
> Like librarians Funny you should mention librarians. It is not uncommon for any role which is titled "librarian" to require a masters of library science / information science. Example job ad:…
In hip fashion circles, I've seen it crop up regularly. Dadcore, Normcore and the like. I've always taken it to mean the synthesized essence of an aesthetic, or at least the adherents believe that to be the case.
I can't comment on your particular situation, but my partner and I just went through this (closed in May 2021). Our thought-process was that we would only purchase if we could: - Plan to live there for 5-10 years - Plan…