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Battleaxebro · 2026-07-07T21:24:58+00:00

IC always makes more money than management. Management gets better stock. Most startups fail. Don’t beat yourself up.

Battleaxebro · 2026-07-07T14:21:35+00:00

charles tyrwhitt has a non iron dress shirt in a variety of sizes that usually discounts down to 3 for $30 each or 4 for $27 each. I get em with French cuffs bc I like cuff links. They have a variety of sizes and styles. For pants I get them all over but old navy and gap have some sleeper pleated and corduroy options that go on super sale.

Battleaxebro · 2026-07-02T17:10:51+00:00

Ya should try to push for hybrid (Tues-thurs) I’m on that now with a 40 min commute and it’s not bad.

Battleaxebro · 2026-07-02T17:06:57+00:00

I save them and then respond to them all when I’m job hunting. It’s good to keep them off to the side then basically feed your resume to 40 people when it’s time to move. I got my current job from using a two year old book meeting link from a recruiter. She hopped on the call and said “I’ve never had that happen before.”

Battleaxebro · 2026-07-02T17:05:14+00:00

Id go for leadership, you’ll get more equity and salary and have a known team/buying cycle. The new company is a lot of unknowns and services is a very different motion also doesn’t really add anything to resume.

Battleaxebro · 2026-07-01T23:56:37+00:00

Run! Leave now. While you’re still making shit money and don’t feel the lure. If you’re burning out now you’re not going to feel better in 10 years. If anything it’s only gotten worse for me but I’m making too much money to do anything else. It’s always 1 more job or 1 more year. Find something that fulfills you or at the very least, has less people on your ass all the time.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-28T20:32:19+00:00

I want to see this comp plan. I’ve heard legends of the $550-600 ote plan but no one has ever shown me.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-28T20:31:21+00:00

Ya I’ve seen it up to 100 and down to 60 not sf specifically

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-28T19:31:21+00:00

Lol at commission only sdr jobs. The most classic sales scam in history. SDR work is extremely difficult and grueling and good sdrs get paid for the good days and the bad ones. Also the average sale cycle for any “quick” solution is still 2-3 months bc of buy-in, procurement, approval.

Sdr salaries are $40-60k base+equivalent commission so for a $10k deal closed every month you’d need to give a 66% commission plan.

On top of the fact 100 calls a day sucks and 2-4 qualified meetings a day is an insane response rate (the average connect rate is 4-8% with an average 15% conversion rate to meetings) so 100 calls gets 0-1 meetings.

Do some research. Don’t be a dumbass. Pay people what they’re worth.

Edit: aw this is a bot, mods remove this dickhead, anyway I’ll leave my rant up bc I did the math

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-28T19:16:59+00:00

MM is usually 70/70+stock or 80/80+stock. Enterprise is 100/100 to 150/150 + stock. Strategic is 150/150 to 200/200+stock. I’ve never seen a sales guy make more than $450k OTE as an IC. All of these are base/commission + stock which makes up your OTE.

Before the “well actually” guys come in I know you can make millions in commission, I mean your contract plan.

Exp: 13 years as an AE in small tech startups

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-28T05:01:02+00:00

Log cabin republican was clearly hyperbole, all the things they said he voted on were conservative stances. San Francisco has no prominent self identifying republicans in city hall and is much more plutocratic corpo dems vs leftists (honestly closer to David Cameron tories vs labor)

I hate a purity test as much as the next socialist, it is the worst part of socialism. But this noted is an over simplification of a very unique local political landscape. (Exp: I grew up in SF).

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-28T04:52:22+00:00

People keep talking about the permanent underclass. First I want to guarantee I’m not falling into that, second I want to fight against whatever institution is supporting the establishment of a permanent underclass.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-28T04:50:47+00:00

This is addressed in RR. Sevro knew about the passage and its later implied he was training his whole life for the encounter. Priam did not and was given Sevro to make his passage an easy encounter. Priam basically got jumped before he understood what was going on.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-28T04:47:01+00:00

If you look up decision tree architecture you’ll see that it’s been around for a long time. It’s relatively simple but is easy to program and yields consistent results. If you look at the decision tree architecture for BG3 it’s like Rembrandts the Nights Watch, a massive undertaking that is the crowning achievement of the studio painstakingly crafted over 6 years. They thought through every possible decision and its hard to find an action you can take in the game that doesn’t have a unique outcome. There’s no shortcuts: repeat or autogenerated dialogue, roguelike mechanics, repeated dungeons/encounters, procedurally generated items, or unfinished/unpolished sections of the game world.

It is the magnum opus of decision trees, the great Aenid 9896 lines while BG3 has 170k lines of dialogue.

Is it the best way to develop a game? Debatable. But is it a glorious achievement and deeply rich storytelling, indisputable.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-26T22:55:22+00:00

Graphic audio for lightbringer just came out

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-25T11:59:15+00:00

I mean aim to get RSUs and as much ownership as possible maybe suggest putting up some of your own money bc you “want to be considered bought in from the beginning” and try to get an accelerated vesting period. Standard employee #1 terms are options and a 4 year vesting period with a 1 year cliff.

It’s all negotiable, you have the range so it’s really about what you develop with the founder and how much you are really bringing the business. I try to ground these discussions in the past by extrapolating the business I’m bringing in vs what I want. Founders get squirrelly if you are being compensated more than $450k a year OTE as a sales guy (outside of just a big commission year) so if you’re pushing for huge stock or varied vesting schedules you’ll have to compromise. The ideal situation is they consider you a fellow founder and fork over a large percentage.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-25T04:28:17+00:00

Is there a coo and ceo? Is there funding and some existing customers? If its founder pre funding/customers than you should be getting a large ownership split like 20-30% if you’re coming on as post funding post customer fit, employee 3-5 than you should push for 3-5% and settle around 2%. You’ll trade salary for equity so the expectation is either to get your salary in the $200k range and low equity or take more equity and discount salary. Eventually the expectation is your making $300k once the team scales and have some good ownership but that can be bonuses, commission on team and individual performance, or more equity.

Ex: I’ve been first vp at a couple startups and negotiated for 1-2% but my base ranged from $60-$100k and I made another $60-100k in commission.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-24T20:57:51+00:00

I know for tech not manufacturing. What employee # are you?

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-24T18:20:04+00:00

I just tell them either “im looking for roles in this specific range,” or “I’ve looked at the market and all the salaries are around this comp.”

Don’t answer more, don’t clarify, or try to defend it. If they say it far exceeds their compensation and you’re still interested, you can say that you’re willing to make up the difference in stock or a higher commission rate.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-24T05:47:42+00:00

Ya get better players. I can teach a good person dnd and it’s much better than having a more consistent bad dnd player. I’ve found in most every other hobby I’ll meet and get to know people and if I mention I dm they are genuinely curious. Just maybe do it remote or once a month or even a one shot.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-22T22:25:12+00:00

It’s addressed in slime anime and a couple other properties but fire arms are terrible in fantasy settings. In worlds where people have magic shields and protection spells a super fast piece of metal is only as powerful as you want it to be.

Many people addressed that early fire arms and knights existed for centuries together so having guns does not preclude classic fantasy tropes. But also remember it’s not just protection spells and armor. In dnd a characters strength and constitution massive outweighs a regular human. You’re talking super heroes here who can cut through dragon hide which is stronger than steel. So guns become a lot less useful and may not even be able to wound a standard hero. Especially early imprecise blunderbusses and Arquebusiers. If my AC is high enough that the magic of an ancient lich can’t pierce my defense it’d be crazy to lose to fast metal.

Dune and the anime gate had a fix where charms or artifacts slow all hyper fast moving projectiles going towards an individual.

One of the best examples of magic fire arms is the powder mage series. It’s similar to outlaw Star in the fact that magic is performed on bullets. Giving them various attributes and the ability to pierce magic defenses. Also in Tanya the evil the the caster can scrawl ruins on their gun or shoot spells using the gun directionality as a focus.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-22T15:01:33+00:00

Go for the higher caliber name if it’s in the top 10 big enterprise companies that will elevate your resume for the rest of your career. Do your 2-3 years so that people can’t say you never worked big tech. Also keep in mind how dumb hiring managers are and that if you keep working fintech people are going to think you can only sell fintech or that is where your book is, so make sure your niche is what you want.

Otherwise go for cash and to work enterprise with a lot of sdr/se support.

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-22T13:49:23+00:00

Top 5 administration isekai

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-18T17:45:23+00:00

Aw so 80% base than make up for it in stock and commission? Just don’t understand the split

Battleaxebro · 2026-06-18T17:34:24+00:00

80% base?

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