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Comment · 1 year ago
You have this flipped. Expense management systems with embedded company cards are an order of magnitude easier to managed and reconcile than dealing with thousands of employees' personal expenses and payouts
Comment · 1 year ago
In an all cash deal the Vendor (buyer) will purchase all shares of the Target (seller) for cash and cancel those shares. A substantial amount of the cash will be held back in escrow subject to a number of clauses and released at a future date.

This will protect the buyer against misrepresentations.

There are often also targets that have to be met to achieve the full purchase price but not always disclosed

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, this is something I have observed, for whatever reason sf-techies don't like capital letters or sentence case.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I have the opposite problem, we have just finished a massive amount of AWS credits from our VC and unfortunately cannot stack these. Any advice on how to get more credits?
Comment · 3 years ago
It's funny cause there wasn't nearly the backlash when mcdonalds implemented the self-order digital kiosk, which completely eliminated jobs
Comment · 3 years ago
this is absolutely not true, I know engineering managers with around 5-7 years of total experience ( aka people under 30 ) making $400,000 CAD in cash compensation at shop. They recently did a cash/equity split where employees could choose their split and not a huge surprise many chose the maximum cash

there are no government engineering positions in Canada paying anywhere close to this

Comment · 3 years ago
It's great to see the market for $20m pre-revenue Series A has come back :D
Comment · 3 years ago
this is a hard problem and will require an enterprise solution unfortunately. If its only 2000 pdfs you might be better outsourcing to an off-shore consulting agency to do it manually
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes the solution i worked on had an interface for HITL
Comment · 3 years ago
I've worked extensively in this space. For those looking for just an OCR solution MSFT's offering "read" is by and far the most accurate. Key-value, table and other information extraction is a much harder problem. Anything that can go wrong in production will. Documents with extra pages, rotated, blacked out, fuzzy. There are many steps that go into making document extraction really e2e.

The biggest enterprise users are doing thousand+ of pages a minute and also turn document extraction into a scaling distributed systems problem

Comment · 3 years ago
Won't comment directly on the strange rant.

But it highlights the reality that something has seriously changed since the pandemic. I have multiple employees that insist on staying home due to their dogs. The amount of discussion around employees' dogs is on another level now, partially due to the anxiety these dogs have when their owners go into the office.

It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never heard "i need to work from home to stay with my dog" as something people used to say

Comment · 3 years ago
A lot businesses that we use daily (uber, airbnb, wework) which are great products would never have made it under today's environment. Not a comment on if this is good or not, just an observation that the Fed indirectly funded innovation. These companies might be questionable businesses, but have products people love.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wouldn't call this a slight negative

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