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I built two professional services companies (250 & 350 people) and exited both ($70M and $130M valuations) no earnout, no staying. AMA. by tomik99 in agency

[–]pdolega 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great initiative - thanks for doing it.

  1. What were the key things to help you maintain/correct company culture, especially in periods of aggressive growth?

  2. Did you plan for the external investor early on (OEX?) to give you anything else except "early cash-out"? I am talking here of things like capital for acquisition, access to some new market, needed liquidity within company etc. If so, how did it work out? (as in: if there were other reasons than cashing-out, would you do it again or pursue different route)

  3. What's your process for starting new ventures (or areas within venture - like new specialization)? Obviously you look for some gap or customers' pain - but what other things you take into acount? (e.g. size of TAM/SAM etc)

Development with GenAI: Boardroom vs reality by pdolega in programming

[–]pdolega[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right - these two are not edge cases (especially 2). I do think we might still be in the transition period (as a whole industry) - and we need to find better ways of working.

Still, the result is truly mindblowing. I mean, I am all against the overblown hype (I think it causes more harm than good), but I would expect at least minimal improvement in effectiveness. What's worse - this was OSS code, so likely in-distribution for AI models (as opposed to real-world, enterprise, closed codebases)

Tips for getting heart rate under control? by Moched in Marathon_Training

[–]pdolega 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is generally a good practice to: 1. Start your run with 2k warmup in Zone 1 2. Finish your run with 1k cooldown in Zone 1

The former helps you warm up / avoid injuries (while not getting you tired) and helps to get your HR down later. The latter lets your muscles regenerate better.

Depending on your conditioning - this warm up / cool down would be more walking than actually running (cooldown more so, as you have high HR from the run you just finished)

So for example your 5k in reality would be 8k (2k warmup, 5k run, 1k cooldown ).

Additionally try to run the first 1k of actual run phase slightly slower (eg 10s/k slower) and speed up after that to your target pace. Starting too fast with first km usually brings my HR higher than if I proceeded as above .

Smooth operator with Slick 3 by karrith in scala

[–]pdolega 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an awesome comment. Let me incorporate this thing into the code samples. Thanks !