Re:Where our economy is, for the young
by sokoloff on Friday October 02, 2020 @04:04PM
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Further, you can't expect to capture all or most of the upside unless you're also willing to risk the downside.
Maybe the A/B test would show no change. Maybe it would show a slight loss. Do you still expect to be paid your salary for the work that went into that? If you do, you shouldn't expect to capture all the upside.
Imagine 5 teams set out to run $100K experiments; 4 teams fail and 1 team creates a $1M gross win. On net, $500K of value was created. The company can't weather the losses from the 4 teams and pay out 100% of the upside ($900K) of the 5th experiment to the 5th team.
Maybe the A/B test would show no change. Maybe it would show a slight loss. Do you still expect to be paid your salary for the work that went into that? If you do, you shouldn't expect to capture all the upside.
Imagine 5 teams set out to run $100K experiments; 4 teams fail and 1 team creates a $1M gross win. On net, $500K of value was created. The company can't weather the losses from the 4 teams and pay out 100% of the upside ($900K) of the 5th experiment to the 5th team.