Whiner Jerkins All Hands Meeting Powerpoint Revealed
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Amazing. Matt, have my babies. We'll work out the logistics.
P.S. If you mean the 2nd day of YC Demo Days in Cali, it's not a fair comparison because we didn't use powerpoint.
P.S. I wouldn't really have a place taking any credit for the laughs at our demos... I was laughing too since I had no idea what you were going to say.
When I left that country I didn't even have anything I could legally store it on so I don't even have it anymore. Because that would be a felony. And I never commit felonies. Or something.
I can't find a "download" button.
You’ll probably want to full screen it.
Fullscreen mode is disabled. You probably need something like allowfullscreen="true" in your embed code.
Am I missing a joke? Or is it just broken?
For a while too long, I thought Whiner Jerkins sounded like a real company, so I didn't click this link. Fool me once...
EDIT: No? No jokes today? I'm sorry.
It's flippin' hilarious
Only if your margins are 100%.
If your margins are 10% then cutting out that employee is just as good as increasing revenues by $1 million.
Food for thought before any new hire.
Cutting out a _worthless_ employee with $100k in salary is just as good as blah blah blah.
If the employee is not worth more than they cost the company you should not be hiring them recession or not.
That being said, hang on a moment (waits 60s). Funny, no calls from VCs. I wonder if it was this:
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/04/venture-capitalist-passe...
Seriously, the people I know (probably many fewer than everyone else) are the types to laugh hardest at this stuff. I recall meeting with an investment banking boutique about writing valuation models for them. The partner told me that before getting to work I had to familiarize myself with the Code of Ethics for his profession. He handed me a heavy tome.
I opened it, to find... blank pages! He laughed heartily. I can't see that guy spitting on Matt's shadow as they pass in the street.
I will say this, though: According to my personal values, if he is wronging people, it ought to be wrong regardless of whether he is wronging the rich and powerful or wronging the poor and helpless.
Which is not to say that he wouldn't be burning bridges, but if I were to feel that he was wrong to publish this, I would feel that way on the basis of deciding that he was being mean or petty or spiteful or hurtful.
I guess I just don't see the people he is satirizing as perceiving themselves as being hurt by this deck. It could be a question of timing: I might feel differently about the exact same post if it came at a time when VC's were laying analysts off and we were treated to pictures of employees carrying their personal effects to their cars.
Hopefully, Matt will turn their attention to the slide in his presentation that talks about net revenues and EBDIC, then say smoothly, "Of course I wasn't talking about you guys, you obviously invest in quality companies with actual business models."
Such a conversation would probably go well.
In my limited experience with VCs and angels, they almost all do.