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Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by gargarplex »

craftyguy wrote: post #13
gargarplex wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open source companies could run on a blockchain and one could have a smart contract to release the source code or access to one's proprietary data upon company going out of business..

> could run on a blockchain git is literally a "blockchain", and has been since before "blockchain all the things" was cool. I honestly have no idea what you are talking about in the rest of your comment.

You know how there is a trend of open businesses? Basically people who open source their metrics?

I think that things have the potential to go even further. A business could open a bank account and have its transactions viewable at any time or its balance queried.

The business could encrypt customer data and then release the customers' keys to the customer if the business's cash balance drops below a key threshold.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by notyourwork »

ram_rar wrote: post #58

I dont know, why there is soo much hate for evernote in here. I understand , the valuation seems crazy. I have been using evernote for years and it suits my needs. I write journals daily and tag them with keywords. That way, i can read my past journal and laugh at myself.

Do you pay for it?

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by bogomipz »

>"Susan Stick, another recent hire (June 2018) who is the company’s general counsel — a role that appeared to be vacant for two years before she joined — is expanding her role to include people operations as well."

So they have a lawyer being asked to take on what are essentially HR duties? If that's not the sign of a sinking ship I don't know what is. I wouldn't expect that individual to be there for much longer either.

Also "People Operations" is a load of shit, another Silicon Valley invention that seemingly all startups now feel compelled to have. I've had a few People Operations departments in jobs past and their duties largely consisted of brining the credit card to company "drink ups" and ordering dart boards and ping pong equipment for the office. The bar for this role is even lower than that of regular HR.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by bradleyjg »

xur17 wrote: post #34
colechristensen wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would be happy if Evernote was "done". I pay for a subscription, I am not interested in paying for new features, I would simply be happy if it went into eternal feature freeze and only did security and compatibility updates. Of course this kind of thing won't happen but maybe it says something about the optimization pitfalls of our economy.

This would never happen for numerous reasons, but imagine if you could fork a company somehow. Take the existing state, but just take it in an entirely different direction. For companies that don't produce physical goods, this would actually be somewhat doable..

Netflix did something sort of like that when they split off shipping dvds into a completely different unit.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by failrate »

bhaak wrote: post #46

Has anybody tried Joplin? https://github.com/laurent22/joplin On paper, their feature set looks great, with various synchronisation options (Dropbox, WebDAV, OneDrive) and apps on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.

Well, I will now.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by killjoywashere »

coldcode wrote: post #54
nodamage wrote: post #29

> “In the past three months (June, July, August), Evernote has been downloaded 2.5 million times worldwide,” a spokesperson for analytics firm Apptopia said. “After store fees, the app has brought in revenues of $2.9 million through in-app purchases.” That seems like... not a lot... for a company that has raised $300 million in funding.

$1 per download isn't enough to pay the bills. That's not much more than a 99¢ game. It means people don't actually value the product enough to pay for it.

I spent my last two years of residency taking my notes in Evernote, but they really fall short in the transition between hand-written notes and that shift to research where you need to make high-quality handwritten notes over a PDF, like Notability, and then move those PDFs to the bibliography phase of databasing. Now that I'm out of training and doing my own work, that like of integration with my future self really killed EverNote for me. Now I need to figure out how to ensure all my notes are saved somewhere.

These knowledge management systems really need to think about a human through their education-training-research-job lifecycle. I think DogPile + Notability + Evernote would be a great integration.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by failrate »

bogomipz wrote: post #63

>"Susan Stick, another recent hire (June 2018) who is the company’s general counsel — a role that appeared to be vacant for two years before she joined — is expanding her role to include people operations as well." So they have a lawyer being asked to take on what are essentially HR duties? If that's not the sign of a sinking ship I don't know what is. I wouldn't expect that individual to be there for much longer eit…

Ugh, the company toys and bullshit. I market my team to candidates by saying that we don't have any of that garbage.

HR is the most critical part of a corporation, but I've never worked anywhere that seemed to treat it seriously.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by sxg »

bradleyjg wrote: post #64
xur17 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would never happen for numerous reasons, but imagine if you could fork a company somehow. Take the existing state, but just take it in an entirely different direction. For companies that don't produce physical goods, this would actually be somewhat doable..

Netflix did something sort of like that when they split off shipping dvds into a completely different unit.

They announced it (Qwikster, I believe), and then they immediately canceled that plan after massive backlash.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by rm_-rf_slash »

notyourwork wrote: post #62
ram_rar wrote: post #58

I dont know, why there is soo much hate for evernote in here. I understand , the valuation seems crazy. I have been using evernote for years and it suits my needs. I write journals daily and tag them with keywords. That way, i can read my past journal and laugh at myself.

Do you pay for it?

I journal on and off like parent and yes, I do pay. Might be planning to offload to iCloud given the news though...
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