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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      Consultants can be asked to do things that are socially awkward to ask of employees, like "Be in Berlin tomorrow." (Did that several times.)

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      Consultants can specialize in a small library of common engagements that most firms need but could not justify a FTE for. Best on market.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      e.g. Planning a conference is a skill. Few firms have someone doing it weekly. Person who does is it weekly likely a) very good b) indie.

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      (That person is @Castro4Prsdnt and you should totally use his firm. Point generalizes to many other consultancies though.)

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      Speaking of "consultancy": hiring a firm implies redundancy and reduced staffing risk. Bob can catch a cold; Bob and Buds LLC will deliver.

      1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      Consultants also get to use their 30% of unbillable time to produce capital which reduces perceived risk of using compared to new-to-you W2.

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      This is the "being in business" dividend. Consultants have to confront "I'm going to be on the market" early and often, optimizing for it.

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    8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      Employees are not naturally situated to maximize value of today's work to next job interview; often actively discouraged from doing so.

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    9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      Consultants also have more freedom than employees to "specialize in charging more." (h/t @tqbf) You can solicit only pointy, impactful work.

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    10. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      As a W-2 if told "We need you to do 6 weeks of scutwork" then scutwork happened. If consultant, can refuse and almost consequence-free.

      3 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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      "You need a WP blog tweaked? Do I see a future for myself in WP blogs? No? Cool; I'm busy, call me when millions are on the line."

      4:29 PM - 29 Nov 2015
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        2. Josh “Always Home” Holtz  💪 🚀‏ @joshdholtz 29 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 This was probably my favorite tweet storm of yours 👌

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 29 Nov 2015
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          @joshdholtz Thanks.

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        2. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 29 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 My consulting rates now range from $1k/h down to "please consider donating to @freebsdfndation" depending on my level of interest.

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        3. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 29 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 Major factors influencing my level of interest: Supporting FreeBSD; YC companies; I met you at a conference; your product is cool.

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        1. Peadar Coyle‏ @Springcoil 30 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 Patrick are there any tricks to generating capital as an employee? I was recently an employee and still managed to do talks etc

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        1. Peadar Coyle‏ @Springcoil 30 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 I'm glad I did that because even an employee situation is often not very reliable and things change :)

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