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Ask HN: Brick and Mortar Dev Agency

4 points·by takklz·el año pasado·1 comments

Drywall 1955 [video]

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Ask HN: Finding investors after leaving cofounded startup

2 points·by takklz·el año pasado·0 comments

CoreWeave IPO Is Said to Be Oversubscribed After First Day

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takklz
·hace 4 meses·discuss
APPLYING

What's up friends! I am a Senior Salesforce Developer and Architect that has worked in high tech software companies for the last 10 years. I recently tried my hand at entrepreneurship that unfortunately did not workout, so I am back on the job hunt! I am really open to anything. I have worked with internal RevOps teams with Sales, Finance, Customer Support, and much more. I have spent time in consulting as well, and have no problem working directly with clients as a Customer Success Manger or Sales Engineer etc. If anyone has anything interesting feel free to ping me for sure! I also have a lot of other software engineering skills (Ruby on Rails, VueJS, Nuxt, TailwindCSS).

Location: Pensacola, FL - Fairhope, AL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Skills/Technologies: (LWC, APEX, Salesforce CPQ, basically everything salesforce has to offer! haha)

Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorkrause/

Email: [email protected]
takklz
·hace 10 meses·discuss
This is actually super interesting use case for AI.

It’s no secret that corporate litigation take a significant amount of time and money in lawyers fees (corporate attorneys are expensive obviously). But if you can navigate a case Pro Se via a AI does the cost burden on the corporation effectively turn the tables on the ROI calculation.
takklz
·hace 12 meses·discuss
I remember where I wanted an intel pentium 4 back in the day so bad!
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
Same thought I had. Almost everything piece of technology that I use is broken in some way. UI bugs, connection issues, missing obvious features, missing non obvious features that might be specific to me, terrible UI, etc etc.

If AI is so useful that it can fully replace engineers or other humans, why aren’t products next level amazing?

If the barrier to entry for these high margin tech companies becomes so low that they no longer even need employees, isn’t the next step to compete on quality?
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
https://youtu.be/KRxe2Gw1F0k

Kinda aligns with what you’re saying
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
Geeeeeze
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
The rank and file equity pitch is quickly falling apart…
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
Isn’t the 409a valuation FMV? I thought that the whole point of the 409a valuation was to find FMV? Do you mean par value?
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
You don’t keep the shares?
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
Sorry, you’re right. There should be a third option

3) You keep the shares and hope for the best outcome. (If they don’t want you to then go back to 1 or 2)z
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
Ahhh yes same thing
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
My two cents…

1) They buyout the shares. If they don’t want to do that then…

2) Sell the company.

If either of these can’t happen the company is dead and everyone parts ways. It’s as simple as that. No free rides here.
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
This is a joke right? Seed investors will get 10-30% of a company for under a million dollars which will be blown through in less than a year. That’s means they’re a drag on the cap table right?
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
The juice has to be worth the squeeze. No sense in fighting against fiduciary duty, minority shareholder oppression, etc., etc. unless there is some sort of value there. This usually means a successful exit before taking action.
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
I've listened to so many CEOs in various industries (not just tech) salivating at the potential ability to cutout the software engineering middle man to make their ideas come to life (from PMs, to Engineers, to Managers, etc.). They truly believe the AI revolution is going to make them god's gift to the world.

I on the other hand, see the exact opposite happening. AI is going to make people even more useful, with significant productivity gains, in actuality creating MORE WORK for humans and machines alike to do.

Leaders who embrace this approach are going to be the winners. Leaders who continue to follow the hype will be the losers, although there will probably be some scam artists who are winners in the short term who are riding the hype cycle just like crypto.
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
Just something I’ve seen lately at all of the startups I’ve worked at…

The founders, early investors, etc., will cash out way before you do and you will not have the same ability to sell as they did. I’ve seen it tear companies apart. YMMV
takklz
·el año pasado·discuss
I get migraines when I drink too much water! Not even kidding. Full blown visual aura followed by intense pain for a day.