Options can a significant portion of sign on bonus but they typically vest over several years so I guess they are hoping for an IPO eventually. IMHO Databricks will be overtaken by "events" including AI disillusionment, broader open source tools and broader education across the workforce. So the eventual IPO will not happen.
Depends. Some options only vest in the case of an "exit event", i.e. an acquisition or an IPO. At this point I would assume such options are borderline worthless.
Yeah I think this is how it usually works, and yeah at $100bn valuation they are now 100% worthless, because investors get paid first, and there's no way they'll get sold or IPO for more than $100bn.
> Yeah I think this is how it usually works, and yeah at $100bn valuation they are now 100% worthless, because investors get paid first, and there's no way they'll get sold or IPO for more than $100bn.
Not quite right? Because the raise-implied valuation doesnt account for preferences. The IPO could be for 50bn and the latest investors could do well given the preference stack of first money outs in later rounds.
RFP responses. In enterprise sales, there's a huge amount of back and forth with different teams in a customer when you're selling anything but very simple applications. Most enterprise customers require certified or authoritative responses with backup material that is tested later during formal verification.
In case any of you use draw.io note that you can animate lines with a right click. Last time I did this for a presentation I did have to record to gif but it worked really well.
Even the healthiest large companies do this sort of thing, I've worked in a few and heck I've sold to a few too. Low code solutions that somehow need a team of contractors to deliver business functionality, delayed projects that drop key integrations to deliver something on time but functionally useless, CTOs whose next job depends on giving work to supplier. Worst of all, organisations that insist that they buy not build but then have larger software teams than their suppliers.
There is. UML diagrams for software, Archimate or C4 diagrams for architecture, value stream for process performance. But depending on the audience you may end up needing to use simple box and line diagrams and they work well too. Draw.io is probably the best drawing tool out there and has enough libraries of shapes to get you started.
I used Zim for over a decade but recently migrated to Obsidian because of the mobile support. Definitely a big change but I can say that after a year it has worked for me and I don't miss Zim as much as thought would.
Millions of elderly people are already getting scammed by overseas call centers so unless we do something more significant this tech will not make one iota of a difference.
That's not really true, most scammers have a male voice with a heavy accent. When they have tools that easily disguise their voice, scammers can reach many more elderly people.
That might have been true about a year ago, but I've been getting calls from well-spoken native-level scammers for about two months now. They are so frequent that I can put them on speaker during family gatherings to raise awareness.
Sample sizes of 1 are never representative but they definitely have full access to native speakers or tech that can generate very passable speech.
It seems quite possible that the change you've seen in these last two months is because some have started using these models. More likely than a sudden huge shift in either the country of origin or English skills of the scammers.
My point is that these models were already out there before StyleTTS2 was released. Plugging your ears and demanding their regulation in your country will not make them disappear.
I don't really get the social media landscape. Myspace transitioning to Facebook had a pretty clear direction; people moved on from one thing to the other. These days it feels like people are just... getting out of the habit of using certain kinds of media.
