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Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by lmeyerov »

inthewoods wrote: post #85

Interesting given the prior acquisition of AppDynamics. If true, I think they should have taken the deal. My reasoning: I worked in the APM space and there appeared to be an upper limit to how much companies were willing to spend on APM and related technologies that caps the opportunity. In general, the charging per agent/server model runs into trouble on big infrastructure - do I cover production? What about staging…

Yep, and a ton of rapidly growing competitors in the overall it ops space (scalyr, kentik, honeycomb, grafana, riverbed, and probably 10 more, and even bigger dev efforts at Google/AWS/MS) means a race to the bottom revenue wise and many easy alternatives for sub-1B acquisition (im guessing most will be < 50M for the startups or say 6X on revenue for bigger, if you are considering working at one and need to value stock growth)

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

meddlepal wrote: post #18
Railsify wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would expect this exactly. Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day.

I'm not a millionaire but I play golf and belong to a prestigious country club (US Open and Ryder Cup host) with plenty of millionaires in the membership list. Sitting at the bar over the years and chatting with these folks that don't need to work a lot of them do work for a handful of reasons: 1. They're bored and want some challenge. 2. They can't stand being near their wife, husband or kids. 3. They like making mo…

The mind of a person who can't seem to find something to do outside of work just doesn't make sense to me. Work is the thing in my life that most gets in the way of me doing things.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #92
meddlepal wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a millionaire but I play golf and belong to a prestigious country club (US Open and Ryder Cup host) with plenty of millionaires in the membership list. Sitting at the bar over the years and chatting with these folks that don't need to work a lot of them do work for a handful of reasons: 1. They're bored and want some challenge. 2. They can't stand being near their wife, husband or kids. 3. They like making mo…

The mind of a person who can't seem to find something to do outside of work just doesn't make sense to me. Work is the thing in my life that most gets in the way of me doing things.

> The mind of a person who can't seem to find something to do outside of work just doesn't make sense to me.

Why not? There are all sorts of extremely popular business and government simulation games, dating all the way back to Lemonade Stand on the Apple II to SimCity, to Railroad Tycoon, to Sid Meier's Civilization series. These guys are just doing it in real life.

The same applies for engineering and research jobs: why play Kerbal Space Simulator when you're capable of building something amazing in the real world?

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

dejv wrote: post #77
kelnos wrote: post #53

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I dunno, man, I think everyone's different. I'm planning on retiring (early) within the next few years. Obviously I won't know for sure until I've been retired for a bit, but I can't imagine ever wanting to have a job again. I enjoy my current job, but it's still a job. I have people to answer to, politics to deal with, work that I dislike that I have to do in order to do the work that I do like, frustrating people w…

I am with you, I don't know why people are so scared about not going to work. Due to some lucky events I was able to maintain some fairly large custom ERP system. After few inital years all the big problems were fixed and I was keeping eye on it for next 10 years. In reality it meant about 1 or 2 hours of work every (other) month and I was paid enough to be confortable, not that much, but enough to live the life I wa…

> I tried to launch few startups and helped couple VC funded companies, I've even bought farm and and was fortunate to spend a few years with my newly born kids without constantly thinking about some deadlines that was not imposed by me.

All of that _is_ work, just in a different form.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by winrid »

meddlepal wrote: post #38
winrid wrote: post #26

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Responsibility gives meaning to your life too

That depends on the individual.

I'm not so sure. I have yet to meet someone that was really happy and didn't have any responsibility.

In fact all my friends who had depression or committed suicide didn't have any responsibility really. I didn't see this pattern for a while though.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by modsiw »

meddlepal wrote: post #18
Railsify wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would expect this exactly. Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day.

I'm not a millionaire but I play golf and belong to a prestigious country club (US Open and Ryder Cup host) with plenty of millionaires in the membership list. Sitting at the bar over the years and chatting with these folks that don't need to work a lot of them do work for a handful of reasons: 1. They're bored and want some challenge. 2. They can't stand being near their wife, husband or kids. 3. They like making mo…

“You can only use your toys so much before they get boring.”

This has yet to be proven. We need an experiment.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by dejv »

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #94
dejv wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am with you, I don't know why people are so scared about not going to work. Due to some lucky events I was able to maintain some fairly large custom ERP system. After few inital years all the big problems were fixed and I was keeping eye on it for next 10 years. In reality it meant about 1 or 2 hours of work every (other) month and I was paid enough to be confortable, not that much, but enough to live the life I wa…

> I tried to launch few startups and helped couple VC funded companies, I've even bought farm and and was fortunate to spend a few years with my newly born kids without constantly thinking about some deadlines that was not imposed by me. All of that _is_ work, just in a different form.

Of course that is work, but not job and definitely not a career. What do you think you are going to do when you get basic income?

In my case when somebody asked me and I haven't have had much going on I did it, but I haven't chased anything.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #93
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #92

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The mind of a person who can't seem to find something to do outside of work just doesn't make sense to me. Work is the thing in my life that most gets in the way of me doing things.

> The mind of a person who can't seem to find something to do outside of work just doesn't make sense to me. Why not? There are all sorts of extremely popular business and government simulation games, dating all the way back to Lemonade Stand on the Apple II to SimCity, to Railroad Tycoon, to Sid Meier's Civilization series. These guys are just doing it in real life. The same applies for engineering and research jobs…

I guess I'm of the mindset that if you'd still be doing it even if no one paid you then it isn't work.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by whateveracct »

xtracto wrote: post #84
whateveracct wrote: post #17

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They charge $15/host and their service is good enough that you can often say that's well worth it, so I think so.

$15/host sounds extremely expensive! Is that per year? My no money side project startup has 5 micro instances and could not imagine paying $75 per month

It's per month.

There is a free tier (up to 5 hosts I think), but yeah. It's that expensive and still people use it!

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by cloverich »

Swizec wrote: post #46
dev_dull wrote: post #32

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You should take that year off and travel.

Yeah but then I’d be at zero and it really does provide me much peace of mind that I’m not. Even more than I expected. Knowing you can always walk away from a job, project, or client is quite intoxicating.

Do what makes you happy, but:

> Yeah but then I’d be at zero

You'd not be at zero. Everyone's different but when I look back on my life, I treasure the travel I did and its been a regular influence on my perspective of the world ever since. I would love to have a year of FU money but... I don't think I would part with my travel history for it.

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