
Dawson Leery
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Sorry, Napa. I hope you have a nice, albeit incredibly short, life.
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Strat - you should become an actuary. Had one leave one of our portfolio companies today for a crazy amount of money. She was probably like 33. Shake's basically a millionaire, so no advice there.
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Pretty sure they shut down the south side irish parade a few years ago. It was awesome.
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As long as you're not an inbred hillbilly from Virginia (sorry Sal) you'll be fine on BEC.
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Wow. I guess I need to post more. Have some self respect. You're a lawyer dammit. $100k should have a minimal impact over the span of your lifetime, but $5M changes things. Ladies like guys with $5M. How is this possible? On yourself, or including dates? Not even drinks and dinner with friends? For someone right out of college? I'd say Chicago. Much better cost of living than NYC and SF. Congrats. I need to have the comp discussion with the partners. I will probably be looking again soon. I still don't know who Cha Cha is.
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This is a business decision, we don't need the lawyers to dot our i's yet. We'll call you when you're needed. I think you're hung up on the apathy of your peers and the middle management with whom you interact. Someone cares about how much money your division makes. If you can convince that person your programs can reduce headcount by 3 (example) people per month at a fully-loaded cost of $4k each, he should be happy to license the program from you for $5k. Oh and SA - just giving you sht. I enjoy seeing how annoyed lawyers get when they're told "it's a business decision."
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IE - why don't you quit your job, write a program (either in excel or an actual software program) that automates the work at your firm? License it back to them for $5k / month (suggestion) plus some consulting / implementation fees. However much you can save them in headcount per month, charge them 1/2 or 1/3 of that amount so they're guaranteed a 2:1 or 3:1 ROI. Whoever owns your P&L (your AVP? his boss?) should be interested in the savings to your group.
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Napa - how are you not on Tinder? Come on man that's a no-brainer. Invention of the cotton gin led to a huge increase in slavery (cotton was now much more profitable), which was one of the factors that led to the Civil War. Knowing Eli Whitney invented it isn't important, but It's part of the bigger picture. Will catch up more tomorrow morning.
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Glad to see it hasn't affected your typing.
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Wait, IE isn't Cha Cha?
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Definitely a character. And I'd bet my house with my mother in it he misspelled "rhythm" as part of the character. Stratty, what would you get on the GMAT? We may need to start thinking about an MBA for you. Also - move to a real city. How many times have you talked about moving (Chicago, Orlando, London, London/Sydney)? I'm Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting and you're Will - I hope some day you just up and move, and then I go do construction work.
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Napa, if you do well in public accounting you'll definitely make over $125k. Don't sell yourself short.
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For Cha Cha (because of his name) and Loogie (because this guy's from our hometown) Founder of Cha Cha Caught Cheating On His Wife Edit: Dude also invented voicemail
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Try: =CONCATENATE(MONTH(TODAY()),"/",DAY(TODAY()),"/",YEAR(TODAY()))
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My guess is Shake's cells are formatted as text cells. When you open the formula and hit enter, it reformats it into general or number. Highlight all the cells, hit control + 1, then change formatting to general. Pretty much guaranteed the above doesn't work because I feel pretty confident it will.
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That reminds me - anyone ever wonder if any of the "new" accounts is Negreanu? Like, he has this site that in its heyday probably had half a million monthly unique visitors, now it's just us, and he's trying to hold on to FCP through the Sick thread?
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Been loading a bunch of pages before flights and catching up that way...makes it easy to catch up but not post. Napa (RE a post you made a week or so ago) - keep rocking the boat shoes, but you need to get these. Can't see them, don't really feel them, but they prevent your boat shoes from smelling.
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Oh, and yes, get the member's only jacket Napa. You'll look good.
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There's a nice quote that comes to mind: "If at first you don't succeed, you're like everyone else who went on to greatness." There will always be naysayers. They don't want to see you succeed, because then they feel worse about themselves not succeeding. So they try to talk you out of trying. What's the harm in trying? Don't let them talk you out of something before you even try. Get your sht together. [/rant]
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Sup Napa. I think both of those posters give off the vibe we're trying to create for you. Two thumbs up in my book. In Seattle for work. 85 and sunny today. I may have to move here. Although we went to a seafood place for dinner, and Dawson doesn't eat seafood. Saw on facebook my guy Shake bought that badass chainsaw. Then came on here and read how much it costs. Had a good chuckle at that.
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Nappy you're in great shape. You're an associate at a public accounting firm, and it sounds like the people like you. You're going to screw up, they know that, your only job is to learn from your mistakes. You'll be fine. More or less. People need to go out there and get what they want, stop making excuses, stop making it easy for people to say no. Maybe I discount how lucky I got, but when I made up my mind to get onto the buyside, I got a ton of no's. Persistence got me where I wanted to be. No no, shake's doing way better than he should. I'm impressed he's still alive.
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I like this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJ5oHFpCM0 Cubs fan, and spills less beer. But I'd be happy being as awesome as either. Job? Venture capital. Life? Getting married soon. Bought a condo a couple blocks from Wrigley Field.Tearing it up in men's league hockey.Buying sweet jackets like my boy napa (Link). I deleted the rant. Same sht I've said before. No need to say it again. Just hate seeing you kids wasting your talents.
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I stopped adding content because: 1. I have less time now. I work a lot more. When I was doing M&A consulting, I had down time between deals. Now, not so much. When I'm not at work, I'm hanging out with my finacee or friends. 2. My stories aren't that crazy anymore. When I was in college, or just out of college, I had good stuff to add. I'm boring now. 3. I end up ranting (see below) when people start talking about jobs. I think I come off as a dick in those situations. When the fiancee's out of town, or if I'm traveling for work, I check out the site. Some of you guys are pretty fu
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Gotta have the buddy send an email to the HR person. Someone sent us a $100 gift card for Ruth's Chris - didn't get an interview. That's awesome. From Warren Buffett's Annual Letter in 2012: "Berkshire’s yearend employment totaled a record 288,462 (see page 106 for details), up 17,604 from last year. Our headquarters crew, however, remained unchanged at 24. No sense going crazy." - headquarter crew = the people who actual work for Berkshire.