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About anthony-james

Gmail: anthonyj@gwu.edu

CPA, Washington D.C. & S.F. Bay Area

Recent public activity

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    Comment #13237689

    If a key part of your organizational strategy is to tax companies more than your peers and get sad when they leave, you're probably the United States government.

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    Comment #13237523

    TL;DR: CNBC either doesn't know how to value companies, or is using a 50% discount rate. Either of these is concerning. Disclosure: I'm using data from their 2015 Annual reports[0]…

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    Comment #13196607

    Schedule a private 1-on-1, and tell her point blank, "I've noticed that you do to me and it makes me uncomfortable. Why do you do to me?" Either she'll explain why she's a jerk, in…

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    Comment #13135904

    Precisely my point - by monopolizing 80% of the employee market, a company can prevent the competition from scoring :)

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    Comment #13135362

    The true value of the employee to an organization in a non-monopoly industry is 300k, in this example, because of the opportunity cost of the employee (assuming they could provide …

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    Comment #13135281

    Ah - good find, I'll edit my prior response.

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    Comment #13135264

    It does assume these things - but they're relatively reasonable. If your next closest competitor is doing worse than you, then your best employees, on average, must be better than …

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    Comment #13135204

    I think it's more of anticipation for the future. If a company cuts overhead for something big, say, a corporate holiday party from $100k to $80k, some may be frustrated, but it's …

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    Comment #13135137

    As an accountant, I feel like employees are severely underpaid in highly-skilled markets (like tech, not accounting), and I think that companies don't actually capture the true cos…

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    Comment #13127285

    The fallacy is when people use the size of a market as support of why they should enter it, sort of like this: Founder: "We should enter X market! It has $1 Trillion worth of annua…

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    Comment #13092634

    This is essentially the entire article, without the clickbait or ads.

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    Comment #13071785

    IIRC stage 3 is you win the primary nomination and stage 4 is you become president of the U.S.

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    Comment #13066707

    Equity becomes more valuable when you have a tangible product. Build a good prototype, the leadership team comes second.

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    Ask HN: How many bits of storage does each unpopulated cell in excel use?

    And is there a way to save excel files without using up this space?