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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by jxcole on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:33PM (#18443431)
What if every employee were paid at the Austin rate?
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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by keerthiko on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:36PM (#18443460)
Simple, you'd never be able to hire the talent from the cities with the highest concentration of the best talent.

(this is not to say there isn't amazing talent anywhere else, but not paying market rate for SF/NYC based engineers is an easy way to never be able to access the largest chunk of the best engineers in the country)

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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by dylz on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:36PM (#18443466)
Then those in SF would be significantly below the poverty line?
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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by TulliusCicero on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:37PM (#18443475)
Then people in SF or NYC would probably leave.
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