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MonkeyCigarette

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  1. Dak has had back to back poor games. I think he’s playing hurt and worse than everyone is letting on. That play he under threw and threw behind #85- he could have ran that for a first down and looked hobbled. He just doesn’t have the same juice out there since that calf injury.
  2. Vegas is on a 3 game skid thinking the same thing. Gruden -> Ruggs -> season down the drain
  3. This was a “small nuisance” trending into a bigger problem this year; it looks like people have figured out how to operationalize and scale this to luxury store shrink.
  4. This was 2018ish; I wouldn't be surprised if DU was shut down for Covid-19 to never return.
  5. Deloitte University in Westlake has super good food. That's all I got on that because I'm not a Texas Ranger or Dallas Cowboy and don't live there.
  6. I'm being asked to invest in a bit coin mining operation from a trusted friend/group-- is this a good bet these days? Or is the shark jumped?
  7. Probably a good bit, but their CEO is all-in on the Metaverse: As mentioned, Nvidia has quietly been one of the best run companies in America and is now the 7th largest company in America-- a far cry from a bit player making graphic cards and gaming cards for stupid Dell Inspirion machines. Everyone I know who has worked at nVidia talks about their time there fondly and the culture being A-1.
  8. Stat: Here’s a three-for-one from Nvidia’s Q3 earnings: 1) Its data-center sales jumped 55% year over year, to $2.9 billion 2) Its valuation topped $800 billion on Thursday, putting it right behind Meta 3) Its execs used the term “omniverse” 36 times on the earnings call.
  9. Series A-C unicorns make up 33.1% of the unicorns (the rest being Series D-G, private equity and secondary markets). Roughly 1/3.
  10. I'm probably not telling you anything you don't know here, but 1) Amazing job. This is probably the most impressive thing I've read on this site/thread of impressive people and accomplishments. 2) You need to memorialize this journey, with milestones and dates and then quantified as you did here, put it together in a pitch deck/presentation, get a handful of champions/executive sponsors that truly do deserve the credit for sticking with you (assuming you needed the help to break said glass and keep your job after 18 months of being a drag on the bottom line) and shop yourself both internally and externally. What you lived through is an SVP or Managing Director type job responsibility as you created a new profit center and go-to-market new product and now you are leading the roll-out and enablement of the field sales and marketing teams. Get paid big bucks for that.
  11. Maybe it's my software bias showing, but hardware sales is a commoditized category for B-team sales players to go slang gear. Hardware sales folks aren't as respected and the gigs aren't as prestigious and sure there are some folks that make great money in the right situations, but the averages are bad and this isn't 2005 selling Cisco or Palo Alto in 2010 or whenever the golden age was.
  12. In my experience, Series A used to be nominal and Series B used to be a step above, but it really does feel like since 2018 or so (and rapidly expanded through the pandemic with, like I said, Tiger Global disrupting VC) it's not uncommon to see $100mm+ Series A/B's... And yea definitely varies by industry-- I've done SaaS sales and consulting and delivery work and even product marketing/management for new GTM SaaS products and I think pure play SaaS sales is still behind other functions on getting back to "normal" to travel for day-to-day.
  13. I'm usually good for 2, maybe, 3 Hallmark Christmas movies a season. They scratch an itch, I have to admit.
  14. What are the red flags or the cold dose of reality you've faced in one month that you didn't see or were lied to about in the interview process? Entertain us, my good man!
  15. I sell stuff for a company that I think will be one of the handful of trillion dollar companies in the next 10 years and I don't know how big corporate lifers do it. So much big company work and internal selling that makes your day job that much harder. The sweet spot for sure is a Series B/C, $1bn+ valuation firm with $250+ revenue and give or take 10% of 2500-3000 employees. In my experience you get the highest salaries, best comp plan and RSUs or options that will actually net big bucks. But with Tiger Global and Softbank and all the cheap money from the last few years, everyone gets a lot of VC money these days so even being able to determine the wheat from the chaff among that aforementioned sweet spot is getting harder.
  16. Hardware sales, oof. Name a worse ratio to work:compensation plans than selling hardware.
  17. I think the data bears this out; during covid-19 pandemic darkest days the percentage of revenue was heavily skewed to add-on/expansions of existing install base versus acquisition of net new logos and new business. This seems to suggest that existing relationships and known value was where most organizations were finding growth or sustained business because gaining the trust and buy-in on new investments isn't easily done over the phone or zoom. I do think business travel will be forever changed, but by maybe 10-20%. Anecdotally instead of being on the road 26-32 weeks a year, it's been more like 15-20 weeks this year. Much more manageable and I still get to scratch the itch of getting in front of a customer and doing dinners and ball games in other cities. I'm in Chicago, Boston and NY in December which is always fun for different Christmas festivities when you get to visit and expense.
  18. Yes. Looks like a tough loss. Hard to beat a team like PHX without Luka.
  19. Now is the time to get a new job; way more openings than qualified enterprise sales folks. Bases into and above the 200's with 320-360k OTE's available. More people I know have made career year earnings in the past 18-24 months in the middle of a pandemic; go figure.
  20. can we round up all the posters who said negative things about micah parson on and shortly after draft day, stack rank on who said the worst to least worst, and publicly shame them now?
  21. I am in the minority that liked Black Widow a lot, but this was a good movie nonetheless.
  22. hmm wa? I mean, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie because martial arts is awesome and beats any other sort of fighting that the MCU has ever put out, but there was some serious cheese and formula. I felt like I was watching a Kung Fun Panda but for teens/young adults. 7/10
  23. I've spent the last hour reading about the Battle of B-R5RB, which is absolutely fascinating, and apparently Something Awful helped drive.
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