takklz
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What's up friends! I am a Senior Salesforce Developer and Architect that has worked in high tech software companies for the last 10 years. I recently tried my hand at entrepreneurship that unfortunately did not workout, so I am back on the job hunt! I am really open to anything. I have worked with internal RevOps teams with Sales, Finance, Customer Support, and much more. I have spent time in consulting as well, and have no problem working directly with clients as a Customer Success Manger or Sales Engineer etc. If anyone has anything interesting feel free to ping me for sure! I also have a lot of other software engineering skills (Ruby on Rails, VueJS, Nuxt, TailwindCSS).
Location: Pensacola, FL - Fairhope, AL
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Skills/Technologies: (LWC, APEX, Salesforce CPQ, basically everything salesforce has to offer! haha)
Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorkrause/
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This is actually super interesting use case for AI.
It’s no secret that corporate litigation take a significant amount of time and money in lawyers fees (corporate attorneys are expensive obviously). But if you can navigate a case Pro Se via a AI does the cost burden on the corporation effectively turn the tables on the ROI calculation.
I remember where I wanted an intel pentium 4 back in the day so bad!
Same thought I had. Almost everything piece of technology that I use is broken in some way. UI bugs, connection issues, missing obvious features, missing non obvious features that might be specific to me, terrible UI, etc etc.
If AI is so useful that it can fully replace engineers or other humans, why aren’t products next level amazing?
If the barrier to entry for these high margin tech companies becomes so low that they no longer even need employees, isn’t the next step to compete on quality?
The rank and file equity pitch is quickly falling apart…
Isn’t the 409a valuation FMV? I thought that the whole point of the 409a valuation was to find FMV? Do you mean par value?
You don’t keep the shares?
Sorry, you’re right. There should be a third option
3) You keep the shares and hope for the best outcome. (If they don’t want you to then go back to 1 or 2)z
My two cents…
1) They buyout the shares. If they don’t want to do that then…
2) Sell the company.
If either of these can’t happen the company is dead and everyone parts ways. It’s as simple as that. No free rides here.
This is a joke right? Seed investors will get 10-30% of a company for under a million dollars which will be blown through in less than a year. That’s means they’re a drag on the cap table right?
The juice has to be worth the squeeze. No sense in fighting against fiduciary duty, minority shareholder oppression, etc., etc. unless there is some sort of value there. This usually means a successful exit before taking action.
I've listened to so many CEOs in various industries (not just tech) salivating at the potential ability to cutout the software engineering middle man to make their ideas come to life (from PMs, to Engineers, to Managers, etc.). They truly believe the AI revolution is going to make them god's gift to the world.
I on the other hand, see the exact opposite happening. AI is going to make people even more useful, with significant productivity gains, in actuality creating MORE WORK for humans and machines alike to do.
Leaders who embrace this approach are going to be the winners. Leaders who continue to follow the hype will be the losers, although there will probably be some scam artists who are winners in the short term who are riding the hype cycle just like crypto.
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takklz on Monday July 07, 2025 @01:17PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I was curious if anyone ever had any luck with a brick and mortar dev agency?There are so many physical contracting, manufacturing, food, etc businesses around me that are so used to doing business in person that I was wondering if it could be successful to have an in person agency to help businesses automate things.
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takklz on Saturday June 28, 2025 @08:30PM
from the youtube.com dept.
Just something I’ve seen lately at all of the startups I’ve worked at…
The founders, early investors, etc., will cash out way before you do and you will not have the same ability to sell as they did. I’ve seen it tear companies apart. YMMV
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takklz on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @11:01AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hey all! I was wondering if anyone has experience in this arena. Currently leaving the startup I helped cofound. In my time we’ve raised something like $1.5m from seed investors on safe notes at a $xxm valuation.I still have a lot of friends in the startup and want to see them be successful. Selfishly, I would like a little bit of a win for my time as well.I was thinking about reaching out to...
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takklz on Thursday March 20, 2025 @09:44PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.
I get migraines when I drink too much water! Not even kidding. Full blown visual aura followed by intense pain for a day.
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takklz on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:08AM
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takklz on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:22PM
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takklz on Thursday September 26, 2024 @03:59PM
from the thomaswdinsmore.substack.com dept.
I have gotten migraines (a visual aura followed by a horrible headache) on and off for years. Some years I’d have a couple, some years I’d have none at all. I have always tried to trace it back to a common theme. For the longest time I thought that common theme was caffeine.. to the point that I quit caffeine for like a year. Unfortunately, I still ended up with a migraine! One day I realized something, maybe my migraines had nothing to do with caffeine but everything to do with electrolyte balance. I recalled the many days I’ve had migraines and besides caffeine, the other common theme was that I had drank a significant amount of water. Sparkling water especially, I can pretty much just guzzle all day because I never get bored or sick of it. Sense then, I’ve made sure that if I drink a lot of water I also throw in some LMNT or similar electrolyte powder in there. I’ve been able to enjoy coffee again without the migraine. YMMV!
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takklz on Friday June 07, 2024 @04:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Does anyone have experience here? What typically happens when a round goes undersubscribed?
Agreed.. if I guzzle water without adding in electrolytes I get a guaranteed migraine aura with vision loss.
Same here! Especially if I have multiple days of caffeine abuse. Weirdly, if I have too much caffeine and go exercise I get one of these guaranteed. I’m guessing some sort of relationship between caffeine and electrolyte depletion? No idea, I try to stay away from caffeine now.