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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 netw…

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…

> 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 a…

> 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 bott…

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 u…

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), aggre…

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…

> 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 con…

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 thi…

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 …

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…

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 fo…

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 ve…

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, …

> 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 a…

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 …

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 an…

> 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. Ex…

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 adhere…

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: - P…