You still don't get it. I was referring to Airtable, which is relational that does not support SQL. It turns out that most human beings do not exit the womb being fluent in SQL and the vast majority of humans never learn SQL. Airtable earns many many millions of dollars per year and has a multi-billion dollar valuation selling a relational database --with absolutely no support for SQL-- to ordinary people.

Google Tables was their weak attempt to copy Airtable. It failed. But Airtable is still a viable business.

You are mistaken on multiple fronts. Specifically: (1) relational SQL databases are not dead (2) Airtable is a relational database but it does not support SQL.

> Sales/marketing just require a knack with people.

That's adorable. You are so damn cute.

You clearly don't know what they teach at business school and you know nothing about building financial models to justify the expense of not just buying but implementing and maintaining complex enterprise software. And you have no idea how to navigate the decision-making process or the procurement machinery of a large organization but I assure you that meals and sports tickets are not how it's done except in the rarest of cases.

Most enterprise salespeople make at least $250K per year and many of them make over $1M per year. I'm talking about individual contributors, not sales managers. If these jobs were as easy as you describe then companies would hire idiots to fill them. Instead, they pay their best salespeople MORE than their "highly skilled" developers.

By your way of thinking, all a developer does it type on a keyboard. Anyone can type on a keyboard, bro.

> At Google's New York office, highly skilled workers now
> outnumber their colleagues in sales and marketing

That's cute.

So is watching a programmer try to sell something, or even explain what their code does.

Sales and marketing are both skills. Sure, lots of salespeople and marketing folks suck at their jobs, but that just proves my point. Marketing and selling software is not easy... hell, most developers could not tell you the difference between those two distinct fields.

Bullshit. Most "Emotional Support Animals" are just pets. There is a whole industry of companies that will use one of their quacks (ie, doctors) to sign the paperwork that turns your untrained housepet into a "service animal." They will even sell you a stylish vest for your pet, er service animal.

https://therapypet.org/
https://waggy.pet/
https://www.unitedservicedog.c...
https://usdogregistry.org/regi...

I had a Galaxy S7 and loved it, but I will not buy another Samsung phone until they ship a flagship that does not include Facebook Services as an uninstallable app. At the price one pays for a Samsung flagship, one should not be subjected to the constant location tracking and who the hell knows what else that app is doing. You can disable (but not remove) the Facebook mobile app, but the "Facebook Services" app continues to run --and update itself-- in the background, like it or not. The only way to get Facebook Services off a Samsung phone is to jailbreak it, which is not a reasonable solution in my opinion.

I think Facebook is an evil organization, one that has weakened democracy in the United States. Zuckerberg is an evil genius who has figured out how to turn our basic human need for connection into something that can be approximated via software and then heavily monetized with no regard for the impact their service has on the brains or the lives of their users.

Obviously, nobody forces you to use Facebook. I used it for a while and then gave it four years ago. As a result of this choice, I will not spend $1000+ dollars for a high-end Samsung phone if it's going to serve as an attack vector for Facebook to reenter my life. No thanks.

So... I don't care how amazing "One UI" is... if Facebook Services ships on the S10 then that phone is dead to me.

The author of this "study" is correct in saying that "engineers who combine tech skills with business skills ... earn the most" but they are incorrect in placing product management at the top of their list.

An experienced enterprise sales engineer at a company like Salesforce or Oracle can pull in $250,000 a year. And unlike a "director product management," a sales engineer at that pay level is not a manager; one can hit this level of pay without having any headcount.

Why are sales engineers paid so well? Three reasons:

(1) Limited supply. Finding people with the rare mix of technical and interpersonal skills is difficult and big companies need a lot of sales engineers.

(2) Revenue generation. Unlike product management, sales engineers are on the front line of the revenue generation process. Lose all of your product managers and your sales team can keep functioning for a year or so. Lose all of your sales engineers and the revenue engine seizes up immediately.

(3) Sales culture. Big companies throw huge amounts of money at their sales executives. The top salespeople at places like Salesforce and Oracle bring in over $1M per year. Paying the top sales engineers $250K is a relative bargain.

To be clear... I didn't get any of these jobs via recruiters. I got the first job because someone I knew socially posted an update that he was looking to hire someone with my skill set. He didn't reach out to me directly because he didn't know me professionally... I kept that job for five years.

When I was ready to move I started blogged about my work and posting links to my blog on relevant groups on LinkedIn. One of those posts get picked up and circulated at Salesforce. A VP who lives near me reached out and invited me to lunch and it progressed quickly from there. I never would have gotten that job at Salesforce by applying... too much noise in the signal. I worked there for two years

When I was ready to leave the job at Salesforce I identified a start-up company where I would like to work. I cold-connected to the VP who would hire someone like me. He gave me his phone number and asked me to call him. I called him every other Friday for about two months, this led to an interview and me getting hired. Those guys went public earlier this year... I stayed a little over a year so I could hit my one year stock vesting cliff.

Three weeks after I left Salesforce I got a message from a former Salesforce SVP who had recently formed a new company. He was looking for people like me. I have never met this person... he was my boss' boss' boss, but I was smart enough to connect with him when we both worked for the Salesforce. I didn't make this jump immediately, but I did eventually leave start-up #1 to join start-up #2 and I've been there for over 2.5 years now.

10+ years of steady employment... all found via my LinkedIn connections. No recruiters were involved in any of these job moves.

If you are not getting any value from LinkedIn, that's you own fault.

LinkedIn is far from perfect and I it has definitely gotten worse in recent years, but...

I can attribute the past 10 years of my employment, across four different jobs, directly to LinkedIn. If LinkedIn did not exist then I likely would have found any of these jobs through other means.

That being said... if you get no value from LinkedIn, perhaps you should stop using it. I reached that point with Facebook several years ago and I've never missed it.

The price tag for this tiny, Italian vapor-car is $13,990, which is $2000 more than the Arcimoto.

If you are smart, skip the Microlino and get an Arcimoto instead. The Arcimoto FUV is faster, safer, cheaper and a lot more fun. It's been in development for about a decade and is not beginning to ramp up to mass production in Eugene, OR.

www.arcimoto.com

He could just stop using Twitter.

Who am I kidding... Trump could more easily chop off his shriveled up little cock before he stops using social media. But the rest of us sane people should log out of Facebook and Twitter and never go back.

It's time to start constantly trolling that asshat with constant references to all of his most notable failures: Trump University, The 3 Chapter 11 filings of Trump Resorts, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks and Eric.

Not likely. I've worked at six start-ups including one that went public and two that are moving in that direction. I was employee #80 at the one that went public, #666 at the next and #200ish at my current employer, so I speak from experience.

A strike price of $10 is not a realistic example. My strike prices have all ranged from 1/10 of a penny to $1.25. My most recent pre-IPO stock grants have been in the neighborhood of one dollar. So let's change your example to:

"Let's say you get 10,000 shares, at a strike price of $1.00"

So the $10K in debt is not likely to break most tech employees. As noted by others, the real trick is to buy your stock in such a way that you avoid short-term capital gains and the dreaded AMT.

There are at least two grammatical errors in the 27 words that LichtSpektren posted.

You are both wrong.

The problem here is the sudden change from having almost nothing to having $2.5B. If you talked to someone who was well adjusted with $2.0B, another $500M would be no big deal. But going from $0 to $2.5B is too big of a jump.

So run it like a business or an investment, with a budget and goals. No investor would hand a brand new CEO $2.5B... they would ration the funds over time. You could do the same with yourself.

For example, put most of the money into a well managed trust and "give" yourself $250K per year as an allowance. You could bump that amount up each year on a predetermined schedule, but you'll probably hit a point where you don't need more. Set a goal that once you've gotten married you'll have access to a one time "payment" of an additional $500,000, perhaps to buy a new house. (You might be financing part of your house... ironic, but it's all part of not being isolated. And your credit score is kick ass.) You first child is born... bump your annual pay by another $50K for each child while your money manager begins automatically setting aside money for college funds.

In other words, live the comfortable life of a trust fund baby, except that you play the role of both parent and child. You will need a reputable firm to handle the details... reach out to other billionaires for recommendations on who to consider for this critical role.

You will probably die with over $2B in the bank, but so what so long as you are happy and you've led a good life? And if you throw yourself into the world (travel, volunteering, parenting, etc.) you will likely discover a cause that you feel is worth of your largess. Don't look for it... you'll know it when you see it.