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I'm calling this Berenson's Law: When you ship a new product or service, major release, or even a major feature, your people resources for new feature development is permanently cut in half. hal2020.com/2018/09/21/the-p… A most insightful answer to why things slow down CC:@halberenson
The Product Shipping Tax

The Product Shipping Tax

There is an observation I had back in the 1980s that both holds in today’s Cloud world and remains one of the toughest messages to communicate to senior leadership.  When you ship a new produ…

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Shipping a product to market is one of the hardest things to do in tech. Go Team @Rapid_API
Andrey Bukati (@bukati) profile pictureAndrey Bukati
@bukati27 Jul 2022
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“We believe the top five distinguishing characteristics of great engineers are writing good code, adjusting behaviors to account for future value and costs, practicing informed decision-making, avoiding making others jobs harder, and learning continuously” - Li and Ko et al.
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Let's reconcile the Bar Raiser program. The goal is "Every person hired should be better than 50 percent of those currently in similar roles". With 6% of people on PIPs every year, we can assume they fall predominantly on the old cohort. Do they? Is the BR working?
Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) profile pictureGergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz1 Jul 2022
Replying to @GergelyOrosz
Mainstream media is acting like this attitude is new from FANG. It’s not. Amazon puts ~6% of people on PIPs every year as a quota. Netflix has the “keeper test” and just laid off some engineers. Google did the same as FB a few months ago (more bonuses, higher expectations)…
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This ins't happening - take a look at the duplicate chat apps from Google, the re-invention of the data wheel at Netflix, and I have no idea what Meta is even doing with that much r&d. Instead of engineers, who is firing the executives who are greenlighting so many bad products?
Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) profile pictureGergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz1 Jul 2022
Replying to @GergelyOrosz
Mainstream media is acting like this attitude is new from FANG. It’s not. Amazon puts ~6% of people on PIPs every year as a quota. Netflix has the “keeper test” and just laid off some engineers. Google did the same as FB a few months ago (more bonuses, higher expectations)…
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just saying that we are hiring across the board in berlin, tel aviv, and the united states.
Andy McLoughlin (@Bandrew) profile pictureAndy McLoughlin
@Bandrew1 Jul 2022
Feels like a fantastic time to be an investor in unsexy enterprise and infrastructure companies
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This job comes with visa and relocation support for our Berlin, Germany office. jobs.lever.co/rapidapi/811d2…
there are actually only three business models 1. sell reach (ads are a vehicle, what you are selling is _reach_) 2. facilitate and take a cut of transactions 3. build and sell IP
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Yes, looks like a text book case for Batfish
Aaron A. Glenn (@networkservice) profile pictureAaron A. Glenn@networkservice21 Jun 2022
this reads very much like something open source Batfish from @intentionet is designed to catch
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1. sell reach 2. facilitate transactions and take a cut 3. build and sell IP thats it.
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Time to quote the Tech Lead Adm. Rickover "People running complex systems should be highly capable"
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let's talk about empowerment - empowered to do what? Most of the time people talk about empowerment, they really mean abdication. Empowerment without alignment is brownian motion. What percentage of engineering leaders are actually good at alignment?
Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) profile pictureGergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz11 Jun 2022
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The disaster is brewing as we’re talking about an engineering org where teams are empowered. Now they’re going to get micromanaged. Of course, this VP doesn’t know this as they are coming from an organisation where micromanaging teams is what got them to where they are today.
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Since this has gone silent when asked the specifics, maybe someone here can help answer.
vgill (@vgill) profile picturevgill@vgill12 Jun 2022
Replying to @GergelyOrosz
Who are these modern, fast-moving companies? What is the figure of merit being used here. How do they organize, report out and manage dependencies?
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This website is free
Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) profile pictureAakash Gupta
@aakashgupta3 Jun 2022
PMs don’t care about: - Unnecessary praise - Getting great projects - Automatic career & pay growth They care about: - Actionable coaching - Empowerment to decide - Accuracy in staffing, ratings & promotions Product leadership is building up your people, not buttering them up.
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What in the hell was the thesis a year ago then? How many more points of data do we need that most VCs are clowns?
Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) profile pictureChris Bakke
@ChrisJBakke3 Jun 2022
VC: we only want to invest in companies that can become profitable **1 year later** VC: great progress, can we invest? Company: we're profitable, so we don't need your money now VC: no, not like that
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If I was Tiger, I’d simply read a few twitter threads from VCs with only a couple of years of experience investing and readjust my strategy to make the best returns
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needs @databricks and @SnowflakeDB
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This is a great thread but not for the surface reasons. If leading private/public market investors actually believed this story, who was fueling the mania the past few years? It wasn't us, it was those other folks over there? TL;DR everyone is a genius post-facto.
Gokul Rajaram (@gokulr) profile pictureGokul Rajaram
@gokulr1 Jun 2022
1. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been speaking with leading private / public market investors, to get a sense of how they’re thinking about valuing growth stage or public companies. Three clear themes emerged:primacy of FCF margins, flight to quality, and muted revenue multiples.
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News flash: Almost no one has a thesis, this is almost entirely FOMO and social-proof fueled.
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