At least they're transparent about it. Plenty of people end up working at companies with this attitude without ever knowing it. Especially in sales orgs.
Transparent in retrospect is not, in fact, transparent.
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tbrooks commented on Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce twenty.com... · Posted by u/client4
I'm shocked no one has mentioned Close.com
I've been using it for close to ten years and can't imagine using another CRM.
I believe they were an early YC company as well.
tbrooks commented on Is social media behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/herbertl
Yes.
What does Twenty do that Close doesn’t or can’t do?
(I’m a huge Close fan.)
I've long wondered why there are no college courses on sales.
Almost every company has a sales department and there are tons of careers in sales, yet there is no formal path to learning in higher ed.
We've been doing this with Heroku anyway. Something about Heroku Postgres seemed a bit temperamental with our app (and was more expensive) so we've been using RDS in the same region without any complaints while enjoying Heroku for deployment.
Does RDS require a lot of maintenance and management?
No one on our team has DevOps or DBA experience -- we feel good about Heroku PG (even as inflated prices).
This. This was basically a lay off in disguise, and yet it's being portrayed as the opposite. Stichfix has continually automated many of their processes using their 100+ data scientists. This is no different.
The company's executive has continually failed at PR though, which is hammering the stock price. Unbelievable that they're letting this narrative just persist.
“Letting this narrative persist”
As if it’s in their purview to control. Ask the poor PR folks at CFA (chicken QSR)
tbrooks commented on VCs are financing an economy of servants sifted.eu/articles/servan... · Posted by u/sarathyweb
I wonder if the author’s primary gripe is with
1. VCs funding a so-called “servant economy” or… 2. The fact that there are these businesses that perpetuate some form of servanthood (to use the author’s parlance)
If the gig marketplaces were bootstrapped, is there still an inherent problem?
tbrooks commented on Open source projects should run office hours simonwillison.net/2021/Fe... · Posted by u/tosh
Mike Perham from Sidekiq (OSS Ruby background worker) has office hours every Friday for an hour. I've gone before and he was really helpful.
This is a good idea. I've been working out a plan to move transaction processing to background processes to help with web throughput. I'd imagine I could solve for this problem at the same time.
I've thought about this, but I wonder what the UX is like.
You always show success? What sort of confirmation does the user get? If the card is declined, how do you notify them later? Would that notification confuse them?
So many things to think about.