Suppose you could pay an employee $200,000 or $150,000 + stock options.
If the two options were rationally considered equal that would mean the missing $50,000 NPV of the employee’s salary would be paid by future investors once they bought the shares. Either in an IPO or in this case by the acquiring company.
Options are also a method to retain and incentivize talent, but they’re certainly a form of funding.
There's a worse world - one where you have on prem Jira, Monday, Paper, O365, Confluence, Github, and internal api documentation all out of alignment with the other. I'm begging to just end my misery.
At most companies? No. The vast majority of data siphoned isn't being actioned upon by most systems. The more mature data driven organizations will have multiple teams between data and marketing to ensure it is business ready which is code for getting rid of the shit data.
You have too narrow a view which seems pigeonholed on technology. The majority of expense is rarely the technical line item or budget unless it’s a pure SaaS or PaaS in the cloud play. The expense is often from headcount, marketing, sales, creative, support, legal, esport, and operational costs. You can make an AAA clone but that won’t make it Overwatch or WoW. Their brand carried them and even back in the day their cinematic trailers carried the hype.
Right, I’ve concentrated on actually making the game instead of the whole business cycle.
I would expect that a small developer would spend less on GR, PR and so on.
Media production such as film, tv, etc. The online world is not indicative of the benefits brought by the media guilds. I am no expert on their benefits but thought it would help to clarify what media has historically had soft power unions.
And yet the patents are often not for innovation but are purposefully vague to capture iterative improvements under their umbrella and profit from it. It's nonsense in this actual case but the concept of patent protections would be fine if to your point it was actual innovation. How would you even decide what is or is not innovative though? Any idea not in the patent database already? Patents are going to become trickier as we abstract and build more complexity into the overall ecosystem.
Order guarantees is not part of the promise with Kafka. If your consumer drops or times out the broker will pause all active consumers for the topic, revoke assignments and issue their new assigned blocks based on the new consumer group acknowledgement count.
The intern? Yeah he’s fine. There’s no real consequence for that person other than proving he’s a capable employee who can be a bit obsessive. They should work in a tangentially related area of product for awhile and forget it ever happened. Technical hires who can implement your idea is much more valuable in bulk than ideas themselves.
Yeah and well you don’t act petty and unprofessional as the CEO of any company. Tech does not get a pass on it. I fully enjoy watching an intern evoke this level of response from a well funded CEO. I was employee #1 for a start up still in business so I know how they can be your ‘baby’ but give me a break on this one... the CEO literally is projecting what he himself did onto this intern.
Why is it a big leap? Consumers also choose to buy Apple and the assumption is we're too stupid to know we can buy something else and do more with it. It's just as big an insult. If I can't get your app on iOS then I just won't use your app. I don't care if it's on Android because I didn't buy an iPhone to use your specific app.
If you want to legislate for consumer choice do so but can we stop pretending this is some battle for choice when it's literally about two behemoth corporations arguing over how they split our money.
