Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder
by gautamcgoel on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:43PM
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I'm curious, which companies make up the Big 4? Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft?
Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder
by eastbayjake on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:49PM
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Usually "Big Four" refers to the 4 largest accounting firms: Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PWC.[1] If it's referring to tech, that's an odd/confusing usage when "FANG" is so prevalent for the same concept but explicitly for tech.
Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder
by lazyasciiart on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:49PM
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In my experience, the vast majority of people in tech are completely unaware of the accounting usage. I only know it because my two siblings work for two of them.
Usually some subset of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google
So Big 5, really, but I feel Apple is usually omitted because its primary focus is consumer hardware and the software is usually an ancillary product.
Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder
by BillFranklin on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:42PM
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Ah I see, thank you for explaining that. I misinterpreted that sentence.
Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder
by muchosandwich on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:25PM
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There was and still is a lot of speculation about why exactly he left.
The exec in question received an offer from one of the Big 4 at an equivalent (and possibly more senior - this was in late 2017, so memory is fuzzy) exec-level position, and simply sent word they wouldn't come into the office the next day. There was no two-week notice or polite exit interview - they just vanished.
It was not common news that Tracy was pregnant at the time, so I do not believe it factored into his decision at all.
The exec in question is very well-known and had lead successful teams at much bigger companies before. We speculated, at the time, that he had found working for a startup to be a very different beast instead.