jackaltman

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Always Run an Auction(magid.substack.com)
4 points by jackaltman 2y ago|2 comments
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How Box A/B tested its culture(lattice.com)
6 points by jackaltman 8y ago|0 comments
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Elad Gil: How to approach high growth companies(lattice.com)
2 points by jackaltman 8y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Lattice Engagement(lattice.com)
3 points by jackaltman 8y ago|0 comments
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How Stripe's COO approaches company-building [audio](lattice.com)
80 points by jackaltman 8y ago|16 comments
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Employee-job fit(medium.com)
6 points by jackaltman 8y ago|1 comments
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17 startup lessons from 2017(medium.com)
4 points by jackaltman 9y ago|0 comments
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Lattice's New Navigation(medium.com)
1 points by jackaltman 9y ago|0 comments
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Doublefine’s Tim Schafer: Does your dream job have to cost your personal life?(medium.com)
2 points by jackaltman 9y ago|0 comments
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Lever CEO Sarah Nahm on How to Hire Top Talent(latticehq.com)
1 points by jackaltman 9y ago|0 comments
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You’re really just looking for owners(medium.com)
2 points by jackaltman 9y ago|0 comments
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No Quick Fix for Mental Healthcare(medium.com)
1 points by jackaltman 10y ago|0 comments
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by jackaltman 10y ago
That's a valid point, that it could potentially be more expensive than it's worth. In other words, it is possible to spend too much on trying to make your employees happier. I wasn't trying to argue that the optimal amount to
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by jackaltman 10y ago
I agree completely with this. I was writing about turnover of high performing employees, which is crazy expensive. Turning over low performers is valuable and important for companies to do.
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by jackaltman 10y ago
Exactly. In this article I was focused on regrettable turnover (when you wish the employee didn't leave), as opposed to non-regrettable turnover, which is very healthy.
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by jackaltman 10y ago
This is a great point. I've seen companies that are great and companies that are horrible about substantially increasing the compensation of their top performers. It makes a huge difference and should be an easy decision to make if com
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by jackaltman 10y ago
I agree with you -- I wrote this with regrettable turnover in mind. Parting ways with a low performer is definitely a valuable thing to do!
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Simple Contracts are Better Contracts: the Meltdown of the DAO(blog.blockstack.org)
189 points by jackaltman 10y ago|102 comments
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by jackaltman 10y ago
Great point, we're definitely aware of one more tool issue, so we have to make sure we're sufficiently valuable and lightweight to use. It's not meant to be task management, but rather a shared repository for longer term goal
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by jackaltman 12y ago
I thought about this more and I think you're right. Some companies do become very short term focused when they go public, but when you not longer have to worry about short term survival you can plan much farther out in the future.
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by jackaltman 12y ago
I love that these guys think of 4 years as short term and 20 years as long term. Young companies often set up this dichotomy as a couple months vs. a couple years, which just isn't enough. Long term thinking is a big potential advantag
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Platforms for job creation(jackealtman.com)
20 points by jackaltman 12y ago|1 comments
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Why we're not in a tech bubble(jackealtman.com)
17 points by jackaltman 12y ago|1 comments
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by jackaltman 13y ago
Non-CS people doing CS will give a worse experience in a single specific case, but will improve the overall customer experience in the long run. I'm not arguing that companies should get rid of departments, just that they should take C
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Customer service isn't a department(jackealtman.com)
46 points by jackaltman 13y ago|12 comments
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Ownership and the Sharing Economy(jackealtman.com)
6 points by jackaltman 13y ago|0 comments
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Spiritual materialism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jackaltman 13y ago|0 comments
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by jackaltman 13y ago
CIL is a public company in the ran-by-a-government sense, so it's a little different. BTU is the largest private sector coal company.
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by jackaltman 13y ago
I think you should be able to compare the value of any two companies, no matter how different their distribution of possible outcomes or how differently they fit into an investor's portfolio.
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by jackaltman 13y ago
I understand that startups are about promise and potential, and that a company with no revenue might be fairly valued at billions of dollars. A startup (or any company) is worth something like the integral of of the graph of probability vs.

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