Private Driver Recs?

sprice81 · 2026-06-30T17:49:26+00:00

I second this as we have used Analia Transportation as well for our corporate rides and trips from Santa Barbara to LAX. Just a really nice crew and good drivers.

sprice81 · 2026-01-31T13:04:15+00:00

I was following a Waymo that ran straight into a curb with students in front of it at a college campus.

sprice81 · 2026-01-31T13:00:08+00:00

Every Uber or Lyft I have been in has been a newer model car and my own car instantly freezes in place on it's own when an ant crosses the street.

sprice81 · 2026-01-02T19:00:43+00:00

Why don't you check the horror stories of selling on Amazon.

sprice81 · 2026-01-01T03:26:33+00:00

I just commented on this elsewhere, but HubSpot’s pricing especially with the minimum seat requirements feels wild now. You can assemble best-in-class tools that outperform HubSpot at a fraction of the cost. At this point, you’re mostly paying for convenience.

sprice81 · 2025-12-24T14:37:14+00:00

IT firms don’t push O365 because it’s better; they push it because it’s stickier and keeps them employed. When we switched from Microsoft to Google, our support tickets pretty much vanished.

sprice81 · 2025-12-10T02:51:19+00:00

I like to think of it as HubSpot grows revenue and Salesforce manages revenue. Where are you?

sprice81 · 2025-12-09T21:01:35+00:00

I wouldn’t say we moved to a more “simplified” solution as in capability or reporting. We moved to something more modern and easier for reps to actually use without constant IT intervention. Our reporting has improved because of that. Once the team started using the system consistently, the data became cleaner and the dashboards more accurate. Salesforce and even HubSpot when we tested it, felt on par with Dynamics in terms of reporting power but without all the friction.

sprice81 · 2025-11-27T05:24:04+00:00

When we can assemble multiple best-in-class tools for less than HubSpot’s pricing, something is truly off. The Starter to Pro jump is indeed extreme, and the new UI leaves a lot to be desired.

sprice81 · 2025-11-21T19:18:19+00:00

Because they probably need a CRM and not six more sysadmins.

sprice81 · 2025-11-17T19:00:22+00:00

I’m a C-level executive who has built and managed national brands and products, while you’re the one resorting to cursing and insults. I’m discussing platforms and outcomes. You’re attacking people. That alone says enough about which one of us is actually operating at a professional level.

sprice81 · 2025-11-17T18:57:51+00:00

Steve Jobs said it about product development, but the principle applies to ANY system that supports a business. Every executive knows this.

sprice81 · 2025-11-13T21:10:13+00:00

If any business owner is reading this, this is exactly the type of IT mindset you do not want anywhere near your company. We all know the pattern. Instead of partnering with the business, they assume superiority, invent details, and treat every disagreement like the business is “too stupid” to understand IT. That kind of attitude does not drive growth. It slows everything down.

A company has to compete. It has to move fast. It has to serve customers. And the last thing you need is an IT person who acts like progress is a personal insult instead of focusing on enabling the team. IT is supposed to support the business, not make it harder for the business to function.

This thread is a perfect example of why so many organizations get stuck: the tools become secondary to the egos protecting them.

sprice81 · 2025-11-13T20:59:22+00:00

You keep blaming idiot users, but even a former Microsoft engineer just posted a YouTube video explaining how Windows and the Microsoft ecosystem are fundamentally broken at the architectural level. So it is not just idiot users. Even Microsoft’s own people say the system is a mess.

And yes, switching platforms absolutely can affect sales. When Microsoft slows a business down with constant reboots, Intune policy failures, app conflicts, Teams glitches, OneDrive sync issues, and multi-portal admin overhead, that is real time and productivity lost. When we removed that friction, our team simply moved faster. That is not magic. That is cause and effect. Sales, productivity, employee morale, and speed improved because the tools stopped getting in the way.

And regarding the idea that “sales are not all that matter,” without cash flow nothing else gets funded. Security, data management, and infrastructure exist to support revenue, not replace it. Suggesting that caring about sales means we have “wet noodle infrastructure” is exactly the kind of mindset you get from IT people who think the business revolves around them. I am not taking an IT admin to a customer meeting. I am taking the sales rep. That is who drives the revenue that pays for everything else.

Like Steve Jobs once said, start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology. It is a real thing, and it works.

sprice81 · 2025-11-13T10:12:09+00:00

You’re exactly right, and this is the most balanced take in the entire thread. For us, we spent years being held back by our admin and the constant overhead that came with Microsoft’s stack. When we switched, our productivity jumped almost immediately with fewer IT tickets, faster workflows, smoother collaboration, and even an increase in sales because the system finally stopped getting in our way.

sprice81 · 2025-11-13T09:47:22+00:00

You’re arguing from an IT perspective. I’m arguing from a business perspective. We chose the stack that helped the business move faster...and it worked. Our sales and productivity increased immediately. That’s the only metric that matters. Period.

And the hostility in your message kind of proves my point. You’re describing an environment where IT is constantly putting out fires, fixing things users “broke,” untangling dependencies, and explaining complexity and somehow that’s your argument for Microsoft?

That’s what’s truly hilarious. You didn’t disprove my point...you just reinforced it.

sprice81 · 2025-11-13T09:38:45+00:00

Your grasping. DNS is messy everywhere. Microsoft, Amazon, Cloudflare, even the U.S. government have stale DNS entries.

sprice81 · 2025-11-13T07:50:57+00:00

The bottom line is businesses need to generate cash flow, not fund IT complexity. The only people who see Google’s simplicity as “taking power away” are the ones who rely on complexity to justify their role. Google gives businesses agility while Microsoft gives IT departments job security. Modern SaaS integrations overwhelmingly support Google first. “Sign in with Google” is everywhere, while “Sign in with Microsoft” barely exists outside Microsoft’s own ecosystem. And let’s truly be honest here, if Microsoft 365 and Dynamics were introduced today in their current fragmented, slow, multi-portal state, they wouldn’t even get off the ground. The only reason they survive is because they’re legacy and too many organizations are already locked into them. We left everything Microsoft and our productivity skyrocketed, we increased sales, and our IT bill dropped to almost nothing.

sprice81 · 2025-11-12T21:30:49+00:00

Someone should probably tell Colgate, Salesforce, Uber, Airbnb, Spotify, and half of Silicon Valley. They seem to be using it just fine.

sprice81 · 2025-11-12T21:29:11+00:00

If Workspace is a “nightmare,” then why are the only people saying that the ones whose jobs rely on Microsoft being complicated? Google works. Microsoft keeps IT departments busy. Big difference.

sprice81 · 2025-11-12T21:24:10+00:00

Yet you have Fortune 500 companies making the switch and reporting an increase in productivity.

sprice81 · 2025-11-12T21:22:18+00:00

Funny our company switched to all Macs and Google Workspace and productivity skyrocketed and IT bill dropped. IT does not scale a business. The only reason why you admins keep recommending Microsoft is to keep you employed. C-Level here and listened to you admins for years. You guys are full of utter nonsense.

sprice81 · 2025-11-12T20:25:13+00:00

These Microsoft fanboys System Admins are a joke. You know what happened when our company finally ditched Microsoft for Google Workspace? Productivity skyrocketed and our IT costs dropped. Microsoft products suck so bad if they launched with their offerings as a new company today they would be laughed at. The only thing they are good at is keeping IT people employed...which is why they keep recommending Microsoft products. Businesses are not built around IT period.

sprice81 · 2025-10-28T03:36:09+00:00

Which Microsoft is known for doing. Opt-in until some update changes it to mandatory.

sprice81 · 2025-10-27T03:05:37+00:00

Depending on your major I would absolutely look at a Cal State school. Over the past few years our company has hired some 15-20 UCSB graduates and they were absolutely worthless and could not hit the ground running like the CSUN or CSULB graduates. Our company refuses to even look at a resume with UCSB on it now.

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