Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸

Chief Revenue Dude for @MIKROSAM - best CNCs 4 composites, ex-FDI guru, Tech, Marketing & Finance, ex-Citi quant, MSFT, @Wharton, @UChicago alum

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

Bulgaria never had any soft power in Macedonia. It was always rightfully seen as a threat and an enemy especially after the occupation in WWII, the Holocaust complicity and the continuing denial to this day of Macedonian ethnicity and language. This guy is an idiot.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@zburg45 What are you building that is so hard to sell?

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@TopherNOW Incredibly enough, it did an amazing job of complex conditional formatting in excel worksheet.
I tried to automate scraping email signatures from outlook and filling in a contacts database, but it didn't do a good job. Generally, for windows related stuff, it's quite decent.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

Genius

[Lamborghini @Lamborghini]

Proud to keep you dreaming.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

Hence my saying: CRM is there to tell you what to do next, not what you did already.

Design & focus of CRM usage for sales teams should be on next steps and plans, not on logging past activities. Deeper content doesn't belong in CRM - I can always call the AE to get the meat.

[Brian LaManna @BrianLaManna_]

No better sales activity than updating the CRM. How else would my manager, manager’s manager, manager’s manager’s manager, and manager’s manager’s manager’s manager’s act like they know exactly what is going on in our deal?

All from the very insightful sentence I decide to type 3 days after the call at 5:12 PM CST.

“great call with jt, loved it. big goal to grow revenue. demo next week”

If only there was a way to figure out what is 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 said in deal conversations.

No (biased) data entry required.

I love #CRM!

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@BrianLaManna_ Hence my saying: CRM is there to tell you what to do next, not what you did already.

Design & focus of CRM usage for sales teams should be on next steps and plans, not on logging past activities. Deeper content doesn't belong in CRM - I can always call the AE to get the meet.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@EdwardMehr This is all part of the game. Our European competitors have bad mouthed us and lied to potential customers so many times. It works sometimes, other times we win. Just focus on your customers and their problems. Let them talk about you.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@FracSlap B2b or b2c? How long and complex is the sales cycle? Spend time on how it will be used by sales and how to make it work, ie, Suitecrmcan be customized xtensively...

[NASA @NASA]

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). https://t.co/X27QJejNDt

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@paulswaney3 Ultimately in manufacturing it is gross margin at scale. This means understanding what leverage you can achieve from fixed costs with maximum bookings before you reach for another expansion capex. Tried to be as brief as possible.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@pronounced_kyle Apparently it is even harder to pick a Y-axis... did a 2 year old make this chart?!

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

This graph looks like it was made by a 2 year old: numbers and percentages are over with no axis or logic. And don't get me started on 2033...

[Alex Hollings @AlexHollings52]

Seeing lots of very reasonable concerns about American missile and interceptor stockpiles. It's a pressing issue that should have been addressed long ago, but there has been a concerted effort to expand production in recent months.

Here's a rough breakdown of production surges:

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@JaredKubin Alternative for espresso is glass

[Dr. Lars Henrik Andersen 🇪🇺 @EUAITaxonomy]

I was at a specialty coffee shop in Brussels this morning.

I ordered a Flat White.

The barista smiled and picked up a Sharpie. "Can I get your name for the cup?"

I froze.

"You are about to write my Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on a disposable paper substrate."

"This constitutes 'Processing' under Article 4(2) of the GDPR."

"Did I sign a Data Processing Agreement?"

She sighed. "Sir, it's just so I can call you when it's ready."

"That is not a valid legal basis," I countered.

"I demand to speak to your Data Protection Officer (DPO) immediately."

She said they didn't have one. She said they are just a "small business."

I immediately dialed the Belgian Data Protection Authority.
20 minutes later, the shop was cordoned off.

The espresso machine was seized as evidence of an unregulated data intake system.

People say I need caffeine to function.
Incorrect.

I need Compliance to function.

[tphuang @tphuang]

The RE fiasco has conditioned MSM to be aware of its importance, but this completely underplays just how serious this set of export controls are.

Diamond, Ga, In, Ge, Tungsten, Mb & Sb are possibly even more far-reaching. There is really no viable replacement to China.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@paulswaney3 Integration

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@paulswaney3 This is exactly right. With 2 you don't have experience to handle a downturn. I can recall almost all of my downturns, list reasons, plans and actions taken, lessons learned and results achieved.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@DeItaone Hi @grok isnt sharing such a memo only with sell side analysts and not the public from a publicly trading company counter to RegFD?

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@rqobela COBOL, was actual required course to transfer to @UCBerkeley Haas school in community college.

[Vele Samak 🇲🇰🇺🇸 @vsamak]

@gak_pdx You are right. This is such and exaggerated post which confuses the numbers and terms. Downtimes can be anything and for many reasons on machines not just robots. Serial production with JIT or JIST may have high penalties for delays in sequenced deliveries, but not downtime, etc