This developing story about Dario's failed communications with the White House confirms everything I've ever believed about the enormous power of the Sales Chad.
You can be the smartest, most hard working, well-meaning guy around, but if you can't get people to like you, it's all for nothing.
When the time comes to send one of your own to meet inside the Halls of Power, you don't send the Geek Squad. You must send the affable, beer-drinking, golf-loving Sales Chad.
It literally doesn't matter if he understands the product half as well as everyone else. You send him. It's what he was put on Earth to do.
Mayors and governors should be required to have quarterly earnings calls
“Tax receipts came in light versus guidance due to weaker restaurant traffic, elevated public transit shrink and Ken Griffin moving half of Citadel to Miami.“
Then 45 minutes of hostile analyst Q&A from citizens
Silly level of drunk but my point is you gotta treat the citi bike as much like a horse as you can. The Citi bike has a soul. And you gotta respect that
Safety in NYC and on the MTA is a non-partisan issue. Everyone should be on the same page. Over 4.6 million people take the MTA every day.
A psychotic and crazy homeless man who had been arrested 4 times in the last 3 months and was literally just released from Bellevue Hospital's psych ward on Friday took the life of a 76 year old retired NYC public school teacher just 4 hours later. It's terrible and tragic.
People who are a danger to law-abiding citizens should not be allowed on the streets. Period.
Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Zohran Mamdani are all complicit. There needs to be a bigger focus on who is on the ballot during critical elections and ensuring that the AG and DA seats are home to people who are tough on crime and prioritize the safety of New Yorkers.
Reminder that PE shops like Thoma Bravo have institutional inertia that makes it very difficult for them to adopt the maxi view on AI disruption of software.
People who work there are very bright but are also highly process driven and default to thinking about things linearly.
For the occasional rockstar analyst who can think abstractly enough to properly address the terminal value risk for some of their recent deals it’s practically career suicide for him to pipe up in an IC meeting and say “I think software is dead in five years” because Orlando will turn to him and say “if we aren’t buying more software companies why the fuck am I paying you a salary”