Those are the approximately the most expensive phone calls in the world that don't result in nuclear missile launches as a reasonable alternate communication channel, both in terms of TCO and in what they directly cost the firms. Why is this so bad? Why calls?
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(Can Slack get away with doing theirs as Quarterly Earnings Slack Chats? In addition to being a great dogfood opportunity text chat improves upon the conference call in every way for asking very precise questions and getting very precise answers in a way which will be parsed.)
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(Presuming that there is a human slackbot doing the usual curation and recognizing next folks to ask a question, etc etc.)
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Now I'm really curious whether
@twilio hosts their own earning calls, which simultaneously seems like the sort of thing that all the dangerous professionals would be very bearish on and that Twilions would say "Draw the compliance owl; we're doing it anyway."Show this thread
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nobody uses POTS anymore, it's almost entirely VOIP
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"Good day ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Q3 financial results webcast. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. If you require assistance during the call press star-0 on your touchdown telephone" Surreal every time.
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I’ve only ever listened to the quarterly earnings call for Tesla (on YouTube, at that). Which companies do you follow?
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I used to provide IT support for earnings calls at a Fortune 500. My job was to sit in the room and make sure the projector and laptop didn't screw up during the call because if even a screensaver popped up the executives would be unable to handle it
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It's like the time when the presidency was still portrayed via radio ... they don't want to cross the chasm to a new world because that inserts new dimensions / relinquishes control of the narrative.
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IIRC these are actually hosted and managed by outside services selected by investor relations, and there are significant compliance issues involved that just make it easier to outsource. Not saying it's optimal.
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