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Re:Launch HN: Promoted (YC W21) - Search and feed ranking fo... by anitil on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:14PM (#29089404)
> in exchange for a small portion of your increased profits

I've seen this dynamic in sales as well, with people complaining about how much they're paying in commission, seemingly forgetting that the commission comes out of sales that you wouldn't otherwise have

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Re:Launch HN: Promoted (YC W21) - Search and feed ranking fo... by andrewyates2020 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:44PM (#29089677)
We start by comparing to the price of hiring engineers, which is at least 300k TAC per engineer
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