"You don't do design or Excel." "No." "OK, let me take another tact: who in a software company does design or Excel?" "Lol nobody."
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"What we spend on outsourced lead gen last quarter?" "$0." "What do we pay recruiters?" "$25k a placement." "How many placements?" "Ten."
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"OK, so imagine you had a $250k budget for making stuff." "They'd never give me a budget." "Play along. What would you make?" "Sounds risky"
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"OK, I get that. Imagine its your hated rival at Competitor X. What could *they* get made for $250k?" "Dunno." "How many books/movies/apps?"
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"Dunno." "What's a book cost to make?" "Dunno." "I assert it can be done for $50k." "Sounds unlikely." "Can you turn book into candidates?"
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"I can't imagine devs read books." "OK, do they use websites?" "Yeah." "Can you get a website made?" "We have a jobs page." "Think bigger."
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"Bigger than a jobs page?" "Yeah." "Like, a jobs *listing* page?" "Like something that an engineer outside our company would enjoy using."
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"I don't know, that sounds like a Project." "Ever asked any dev in this company what they did over a weekend?" "Apps or some shit I dunno."
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"Could your hated rival, with $250k, possibly cause an app that devs would use to exist?" "Buy dev time? Lol. Impossible right."
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did you just make all of this up on the fly or did you have it noted down? sounds like youve seen this all to much in reality
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I wrote it roughly contemporaneously with the tweet time stamps. I have thought about topic on occasion for years.
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If you made this into a blog or Medium post I think a lot of ppl would learn from it.
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