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"Empirical research on software engineering is a trainwreck" ...and here are some truths from my empirical research.

Nothing new here. AWS US-EAST-1 has been doing this for years.

First 6 months of this year Gitlab took in $108M in revenue, and had $177M in expenses. Would you pay $10B to own a company that loses $10M/month, with the hopes they will continue…

Title should be: "Companies that pay less than market rates"

I agree it's yours until you sell. We are just debating semantics (does retiring with $14M mean retiring with $14M you can spend, or $14M minus taxes that you can spend). Also, Cap…

I love mid. Sometimes you don't want the first few characters, or the last few, you just really want the ones in the middle.

I agree. But a material chunk of the $14M belongs to the government (not available for the individual to spend). If someone takes out a $2M loan at the age of 58, and retires at 59…

You should subtract capital gains. Unless you know of a way to put $84k/year into a roth account.

$1529...you're welcome.

Yours in a world where nothing functions properly.