How do you manage such an insanely low price point?
Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
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Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#42Hah—ironically, it's expensive enough it should be advising you to go with a cheaper option.
Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey! Founder & CEO here. Love the emotional response. Hey -- some people have to think it's incredibly stupid for it to be a good idea, right? #vclogic ;) Anyways, we don't see this as just an advisor/coach that you use once or twice a year. That's thinking by the old school rules of how career coaches work. But Boost is very, very different. The vast majority of our users use Boost to analyze internal workplace situ…
So you have a team of insulated Silicon Valley scalleywags that are going to help _me_ with my job in another reasonable part of the country? Unlikely. Cmon, we all know the bourgeois hipsters giving advice to normal people is like throwing a subway sandwich to ducks in a pond.
We are aware of bubbles and are proud to say we help people across many different industries and socio-economic statuses.
Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#44Roll eyes . I'm sorry but this is a ridiculous idea. I can see potential use for this once or twice a year, and even at that I wouldn't reach out to anyone unless I know them personally. How insecure and in need of validation someone needs to be to seek career advice from a chatbot four times a month?
Hey! Founder & CEO here. Love the emotional response. Hey -- some people have to think it's incredibly stupid for it to be a good idea, right? #vclogic ;) Anyways, we don't see this as just an advisor/coach that you use once or twice a year. That's thinking by the old school rules of how career coaches work. But Boost is very, very different. The vast majority of our users use Boost to analyze internal workplace situ…
This was years ago now, but I said the same thing about that "milliondollarwebsite.com" (or something like that?), that sold pixels as advertising space on a single pahe. "What a bloody stupid idea" I said, and said to my flat mates at the time, that if it makes the money I'll run round the block naked.
Fast forward a year or so later, I got sent a link (by my now old flatmate) to a BBC article saying they'd made their million bucks. So, we got together, drank -a lot in my case - and all I remember is much hilarity and that it was a cold night that night.
Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#45Have they thought about adding in Motivational Coaching? I would easily pay for that as I need to perform at a very high level for long periods of time with little advice. I would pay probably upwards of 300 a month for regular access to a motivational and strategic coach a la the main character in Showtime's Billions.
Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#46My first question on seeing this was "what does the advice look like?" Thanks for having so many examples right on the home page!
Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#47Roll eyes . I'm sorry but this is a ridiculous idea. I can see potential use for this once or twice a year, and even at that I wouldn't reach out to anyone unless I know them personally. How insecure and in need of validation someone needs to be to seek career advice from a chatbot four times a month?
Hey! Founder & CEO here. Love the emotional response. Hey -- some people have to think it's incredibly stupid for it to be a good idea, right? #vclogic ;) Anyways, we don't see this as just an advisor/coach that you use once or twice a year. That's thinking by the old school rules of how career coaches work. But Boost is very, very different. The vast majority of our users use Boost to analyze internal workplace situ…
I think the idea isn't bad. There are people who want to mentor and people who are in need of mentors, makes sense.
However, I have two main questions:
Does having a person to talk to offer a compelling alternative to a blog post/book etc. that emphasizes the things you just mentioned: "brand that exudes quality, land speaking engagements, push to hit goals" etc. ?
The second question is: what about people who already do that? Will this be mainly geared towards entry level folks looking to go from mediocre jobs to good jobs? What do you have that would entice someone like me (happy with my current job, well paid, an online brand to some degree, does speaking/open source)? Perhaps I am not the target customer?
Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#48I'm a recruiter who's been a CTO, contract developer, consulted for most of the large international staffing companies, run (very) occasional courses on career development for developers, and have hired many people as a technical interviewer. I give a lot of free advice to developers I represent.
I will be curious to see if there's an actual market for this.
Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#49I'm a recruiter who's been a CTO, contract developer, consulted for most of the large international staffing companies, run (very) occasional courses on career development for developers, and have hired many people as a technical interviewer. I give a lot of free advice to developers I represent. I will be curious to see if there's an actual market for this.
Do you work in or around the Bay Area? I don't actually know very many recruiters who are more than just salespeople.
Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach
#50Possibly useful for people who have lots of money and no friends.