Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee

Post by JamesBarney » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 8:31 PM UTC

seppin wrote: post #624

JamesBarney wrote: post #391

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Just like how you say the work engineers do is not magic. That literally 1000s of other people can do it. That's also true of marketing, sales, and product development. Takes sales for instance, sales is knowing your clients needs, and knowing how your product fits into those needs and then having a shit load of conversations about how your product fits clients needs. There isn't any magic. You can contact more peopl…

> You can contact more people, and you can convince a few percent more people to buy your product. This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how sales works.

I'd be curious what about it is wrong?

Post by urda » Mon, Oct 09, 2017, 6:19 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #613

urda wrote: post #113

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> This is an insult to the thousands of people who make it in the bay area on barista wages. No this is the reality of living in the Bay Area. People who are living on barista wages are getting screwed by it. It's an insult to them that this is the reality today. > Just fucking wow. Alright calm down, you're on HN not reddit. You can express your viewpoint without being dramatic and vulgar. > You can save in the bay…

You didn't start this flamewar but you fueled it with condescension and got ruder as it went on. Please don't do that again. Comments need to get more civil and substantive, not less, as a thread gets more provocative. Otherwise we all go up in flames. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You're right, and I took a 1~2 week leave from HN because of it myself.

I did get lost a bit getting over worked about the situation. It's a topic that hits close to home for me as SF was a great place to live for me for a better part of a decade, but myself and other friends had to leave as the rising costs squeezed us out.

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