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Well if you cut everyone's salaries, you also don't retain the good people. That's the theory at least. In practice, some of these companies don't know who is solid and who isn't since they have layers of management. So it can be quite random

I'm upvoting this, it's a clear issue

not good for twilio. probably will bounce up in the short run as they increase financial discipline. (ie cut projects and teams). but then its not clear to me what their tech/product vision is going forward. and their core markets of sms and voip are slowly being replaced by other channels. (IE companies like Stream for chat, braze for notifications & marketing, authy for 2fa etc)

Scaled down from 150 people and high burn to 120, much higher revenue, and clearly on a road to break even. I do find it quite challenging. Financial markets are tighter than they've ever been and it feels out of whack with market rate salaries/and the level of effort people put in.

could be that's the problem, we went up though, not down in rates. think its around 120k base + 120k in equity. how much do you make?

At Stream we used to hire for react native quite easily. Nowadays it's impossible to find experienced people who want to work with RN. Don't see that issue on Go, or any of our other SDKs. In case anyone is looking for a lead RN role remote EU or amsterdam: https://getstream.io/careers/job/5714344003/

Replacing LLHLS and Webrtc will be hard since they both work quite well.

Peter helped us many times over at getstream.io, appreciate it.

And then the other side of this is that many tech companies are still spending more than they can afford long term with the current investor/interest climate.

Because it will not get solved unless we're willing to invest time, effort and some risk into developing AI

Though maybe good to have a system where a human remote driver takes over in cases where it's confused?

43k deaths per year due to human drivers. DMV should stop sticking their heads in the sand. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state....

Depends on the stage:

Seed stage. Focus on engineering and talking to customers. Ignore everything else. Do the sales and marketing work yourself till $1M in ARR at least. Many startups fail since they try to hire for these essential roles and its rare for non-founders to take it from 0 to 1.

A/B round stage. Build an in-house recruiting team early. I scaled to 150 people too fast over at Stream, next time i'd take more time with hiring. I'd also recommend doing final interviews with everyone yourself, don't let the company hire people without you interviewing them. Be on top of MQL definitions when you scale marketing, otherwise things will go wrong. Sales enablement is essential when you get beyond 3 AEs. Read Saastr :)

The discussion here tends to ignore the posts about people working multiple jobs or not working 40 hours a week remotely. Can't have your cake and eat it too

Plenty of public polls on Blind and threads on HNews to see the impact of remote work. Don't think we benefit from ignoring that for many people remote work means hardly working.

iOS devs don't want to use Kotlin multiplatform, I really doubt this will gain any traction.

what are the benefits of DuckDB?

While it's true that this can happen to external tools, it doesn't happen very often. Companies have a very strong incentive to ensure their products are supported long terms and work well. For in-house developed software it happens frequently that past employees leave the codebase in a state, where new team members end up rewriting it.

So it's a bit weird to say you shouldn't use closed source since there is a small chance things change in a way we don't like, and then your alternative is to use in-house software, where maintenance issues in the future are pretty much guaranteed.

Tricky, company is losing money it seems. -192M last quarter according to google.

Getting paid a high salary and having a percentage of people not do work is not a realistic expectation to have.

Grindr stock is up as a result

I think the regulation should classify products differently. Something that records audio and video should require a high level of security and support. Something that wirelessly controls my sprinklers maybe not as much.

I mean, it kinda does and always will. But I do feel like we can do better than zoom/slack/loom

Most companies can stretch their runway a little and have done so. We are still 12 months away from many startups who don't have solid economics collapsing.

odds of this getting shutdown in the next 3 years?

There is a weird bias where VC doesn't seem to care much about market defensibility and unit economics. Growth is good, but companies without solid unit economics or poor defensibility can get to 100m in revenue and still not be worth anything.

Well, the same playbook is happening right now for AI

This is just math, lots of companies raised at very high rates, market changes destroyed growth, they can't raise again and many can't reach profitability.

The companies that can run profitably, will take over many markets.

The design of activity feeds is very similar in a way.

There's a big gap in these trends between SF & everywhere else. - For companies in SF, rents are extremely high, local salaries are super high and the city is in bad shape so nobody wants to go there. - In most other places rents are affordable, local and remote salaries are similar, and cities are pleasant

SF office space is going to get crushed. Most other places will partially recover.