Hacker News Reader

Comment by greggman3 | Hacker News Reader

It doesn't take much imagination to see that this won't work.

Have you ever tried running a company? Let's say you have a band (which is a form of a company. They sell entertainment). You can't find a drummer. Would you train one? How many years are you going to able to wait before you start your band for real while your new drummer trains? In the mean time you aren't able to make any money because the band can't perform.

The average size of a company is 1-4 people. They aren't Walmart size etc.. They don't have the budget to train an employee

https://www.naics.com/business-lists/counts-by-company-size/

View on HN

You can't be serious.

We're talking about the kind of training needed to work some garbage CRM that the employer uses, not a decade spent mastering a fine art...

Never mind that plenty of successful bands have flourished with drummers with little more than a few months "training". I mean, you know, it depends on whether you're a prog-rock band or garage/art band, ha ha.

> Let's say you have a band

The band U2 trained its singer, on-the-job style. Worked out pretty well for the business.

Sorry my example prevented you from understanding. 3 guys getting together to wing it until they make it is not the same as 2 guys needing a third to make a living and not being able to wait years until that 3rd person gets up to speed.

the point you want to make seems intuitive but looking closer it’s a bad comparison. A band is a one and done setup and the startup pain you are referencing while someone gets trained is happening now anyway. Even despite current events the pain to start that training pipeline is O(LOG N) which airlines are doing for pilots now or more now because of the shortage. I think the nvidia build pipeline referenced in good strategy bad strategy about chaining 3 teams of 18 month developments together to continuously release every 6 months even though each team needs about 18 months to go from r&d to production. Yes the first time ever there was 18 months without a release. They have the time and money to invest and they will have to wake up and stop being selfish and start making sure we can coexist.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com