Crossover is one of the most interesting experiments of the past decade. Human capital arbitrage and ruthless best practices at a grand scale with ungodly amounts of money flowing in. Ethically fraught, completely fascinating.https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1066178839686987778 …
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
In one of those “See something once and then start seeing it everywhere” I’ve spent last couple of weeks looking at PE-esque operations which just quietly take 10, 100, or 500 smallish software companies off the table and manage their senescence.
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Replying to @patio11 @AustenAllred
And this is causing me to reevaluate some thoughts I’ve had about plausible terminal outcomes for people who own
$N million software companies and also for career advice for engineers living in not great software markets.2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes -
Replying to @patio11 @AustenAllred
One salient bit of which: having a low-stress relatively well-paying gig at a firm that feels like a company for 5+ years is a thing that you should feel is actively dangerous rather than an acceptable lifestyle choice, because you may not be negotiating with the family in yr 8.
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Replying to @patio11
Would love to read anything you’ve seen on these types. I find shockingly little written about them.
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Should really write about it myself too...
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Replying to @patio11 @AustenAllred
(Will include links where I can to the public stuff. Like many communities of practice some of the best information travels at the speed of beer or is at URLs which don’t resolve outside the VPN.)
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