Person called Workman says to work more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Latch bio: “we work six days a week”
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#12> we are looking for for prodigal engineers with a true love and talent for computers:
prodigal:
adjective
1. spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.
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#13At twitter engineers are working 18 hours a day, 6 days a week - sleeping on the floor of the office. I don’t agree with Musk but he’s really influential and his style of management is going to be copied like others copied Steve Jobs!
This is just a start :)
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#14http://kenbw.com/call.html > One of our beliefs is that life sciences will be disrupted by those with rigorous training in mathematics and computer science without a previous background in biology. These fields provide tools for reasoning about biological problems in different ways from traditional researchers. > One Latch engineer finished most of Berkeley's graduate mathematics program in a few years of undergrad b…
Suddenly NOT having foundational knowledge is a plus!?!
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#15I mean if you can’t be profitable paying below market wages then you can’t be profitable
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#16This reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes when she wanted engineers to work 24-hour shifts and she was upset they couldn't hire anyone willing to work those hours.
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#17Out of curiosity how do they plan too monetize these workflows? I'm sure the really big players in the industry (i.e. Merck/Eli Lilly/etc..) all have their own bespoke workflows. Maybe, the founder actually put in a few years at one of these companies and knew some of the gaps in their workflow but looking at his resume that doesn't seem the case.
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#18I am betting myself $20 right now that this is the last I ever hear of this company, except perhaps if there's an HN post when they go under and everyone is like "remember 6-day-a-week-Mission-Bay-only guy?"
Honestly this is comment is the cherry on top
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#19Is this the start of the bio bros?
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#20http://kenbw.com/call.html > One of our beliefs is that life sciences will be disrupted by those with rigorous training in mathematics and computer science without a previous background in biology. These fields provide tools for reasoning about biological problems in different ways from traditional researchers. > One Latch engineer finished most of Berkeley's graduate mathematics program in a few years of undergrad b…
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