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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by ThrustVectoring on Sunday February 19, 2017 @09:57PM (#13683907)
It does, because value generated helps with your best alternative to negotiated agreement. Specifically, there's more money floating around trying to woo freelancers, technical cofounders, etc.

Also, it sets their BATNA as well - how much value they miss out on while working on replacing you.

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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by rifung on Sunday February 19, 2017 @11:28PM (#13684293)
> Also, it sets their BATNA as well - how much value they miss out on while working on replacing you.

Ah I never thought about that.

I don't really get what you mean with respect to more money to get freelancers and such. Isn't the compensation of freelancers directly related to how much they would have to pay employees anyway? After all, I can only assume that if it's significantly cheaper to hire an employee, they would do so.

I would have thought too that freelancers have some special skillsets, which make them less easy to find, and thus less replaceable as well, but I don't have any data to back that up.

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