ktemkin, 16 days ago

(okay to be fair it actually took about two months to do what… checks notes a $4M VC funded startup hasn’t been able to do in several years; and we also had a politically savvy frenchman)

swetland, 16 days ago

@ktemkin Is the Frenchman an asset or a liability here? (Having worked for a company founded by and employing a number of Frenchmen I can see this going either way, depending).

msh, 16 days ago

@ktemkin sounds like a good reason to errr...nix the VC techbros

recursive, 2 months ago

@ktemkin Oh, that's even better than the time I worked in a small group acquired by Aruba Networks, and we had a recent hire from Cisco tell us basically, "wow, this would have taken Cisco a team 5x this size"

stoneymonster, 2 months ago

@recursive @ktemkin as a repeat Cisco employee and also someone who went to a ragtag startup this is hilariously accurate.

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@recursive @stoneymonster I worked on a Citrix project that wound up being in the hands of an much smaller company and team after Citrix divested themselves of it, and once we dug ourselves out of some of the bizarre decisions they had made, it was a massive boost in development speed

lethalbit, 2 months ago

@ktemkin is this with or without ADHD meds? :v