The „how“ too. I’m not sure I really understand the point they are getting at. The act of translation isn’t passive, there is a lot of decision making that comes with it. If we could delegate it cleanly to LLMs, and they would reliably „just translate“ I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have any problem with that technology. But that’s not how things happen, instead you give a goal, and the system will make you believe everything is done the way you want. Until you actually verify and notice it took quite a lot of decisions that don’t align with your actual goal.
There were definitely bad actors in the pandemic PPE procurement rush. It's mostly cleaned up now (prices/availability are more reasonable) but we would start to see all the lawsuits/investigations come forth from the activity earlier in the year.
Too many folks jumped into the business without knowing how it works/how to do verification.
We've done a fair bit of nitrile glove trading (after our initial work with N95 procurement & donations early in the pandemic) and happy to answer what I can.
Cheqout (YC W21) | Elixir / React | San Francisco, US | Full-Time
We're an in-person ordering & payments platform for restaurants, just finished YC and have raised a few million $ to support our rapid growth. We're already in 100+ locations and for a number of them, fully responsible for their entire ordering & payments stack.
You'ld be joining a small engineering team (4), working in concert with the founders so you'ld be integral to our efforts & will have significant impact. Elixir backend, React front-end. GraphQL. Postgres. AWS. Terraform
As we're still a small team, we'ld prefer experienced candidates only as we do not (yet) have the bandwidth to provide mentorship & grow junior engineers.
https://www.cheqout.com If you're in SF, LA or NYC, we have multiple installations you can well, cheqout.
Send me an email if you're interested refencing hackernews. jchoong@cheqout.co
Cheqout YC W21 | Elixir Engineer | Full-time | San Francisco | https://cheqout.com
Cheqout provides in-person ordering and payment for local businesses starting with restaurants. We are now at 150+ locations & growing our revenues 20% week on week while helping restaurants thrive during & post Covid.
We are looking for a 4th engineer on our team with at least 2 years experience with Elixir. Ideally in San Francisco Bay Area.
If you're interested, please send your details to jchoong@cheqout.co
Cheqout YC W21 | Sales & Engineering | San Francisco Bay Area / New York | https://www.cheqout.co
Cheqout is an in-person ordering & payments platform. Our first vertical helps the restaurant industry by increasing their net profit as well as simplifying their operations. We're growing fast (> 250% in Feb) & we're post-revenue.
We're looking for:-
- Field sales account executives (SF & NYC)
- Back end (Elixir) engineer
- Front end (JS/RN) engineer
Our team is still pretty small & we need experienced hands ready to execute.
Been helping a 501c3 charity buy PPE for donation send to individual healthcare workers. https://www.humankindnow.org (work is still ongoing. After starting with hospitals/critical zones/etc we've now started with the underserved non 'headline' communities )
Now contemplating a group buy for general public/businesses with the re-opening to top off the work. https://bit.ly/groupbuymasks
Starting up: expect lots of discomfort. There's so much bigCo support you have to re-build and it is hard to hire. It might be better to spend 6mths - 1yr at A/B stage co first then only to the founder stage. Alt, try doing something on the side to begin with. Find a partner in crime.
L7 & single? You can afford to pay the outside co-founder a bay area survivable amount (140-200 varies) and have that person work through some of the early situations and then skip out when things are moving along (eg. think A round). Risk-adjusted & safe but yet keeps a lot of the upside while allowing you to taste what it's actually like.
L8? Risk-reward ratio is skewed towards staying at a FAANG. Find and fund a few projects. See what happens. Get excitement outside of work (take all! possible vacations)
Either way, maybe find some time to talk with a proper counselor/therapist (and not HN...). Doesn't hurt and can help with the disconnected feel.
ps. funding env for form FANG, it's good assuming you are doing something sort of close to what you were responsible for. Don't expect risk-reward to be favorable though..
