Erik Allebest
17 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2024 by Erik Allebest · across every show →
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Allebest forced exiting investors to pool tens of millions for staff
“When our PokerStars investor, you know, the Sheinberg family, when they exited to GA, I said, I am going to block this transaction as hard as I can, unless We set aside a huge percentage comparatively of the sale. Everybody is going to pay. I think it was seve…”
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Allebest set early salaries by asking candidates what they needed to live
“I would just say to them, Hey, how much money do you need to do this job? And if we can make that, we'll do it. And if not, I'll let you know, but really, what do you need to do this? Because I'm not going to make you an offer. Cause I don't know your life. I …”
Feb 7, 2024 bullish
Allebest: Geographic hiring constraints shrink talent pools and inflate compensation
“First of all, talent is all over the world. And if you are geographically confined on talent, you have a smaller hiring pool and you are now competing in ways, you know, that are hard. It's hard to compete against these massive dangled comp packages in certain…”
Feb 7, 2024
Allebest: Directness requires building relationship credit through positive interactions
“It's not an either, or it's not like be nice and then don't be direct. It's like you can be both. And I think a lot of it has to do with like the number of deposits and withdrawals you make in any relationship. And so it's like your bank account. So you need t…”
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Feb 7, 2024 bullish
Allebest: Remote work removes performative behavior and drives employee loyalty
“They don't feel trapped in the office. They don't feel like they have to show up early to do FaceTime. They don't feel like they have to be the last one to leave. They don't have to pretend like they're busy. It's so life enabling to them that they're grateful…”
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Allebest: Silicon Valley wrongly believed the chess market was capped at $10M
“Well, I mean, now knowing what I know, I mean, chess is a much bigger market. I don't think I did anything wrong. I think everybody was wrong. I think consensus, including from me, was that chess was too small, and so why would you invest in a business that yo…”
Feb 7, 2024 bullish
Allebest: Chess will remain the preeminent strategy game as media proliferates
“People go back to the classics and for a little bit of just like safety. I mean, my kids listen to music from generations past because there's something that's like just classic about that. And I think that chess will be the fallback Of the greatest strategy g…”
Feb 7, 2024 positive
Allebest: Global remote market access has dramatically raised Serbian tech wages
“What's been great is to see globalizing, like people wages have gone up because someone who used to in Serbia work for nine dollars an hour. Now they have a global marketplace to work so that their wages have gone up a ton.”
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Allebest: Exact-match domains were essential for web startups, unlike today
“Ridiculously large role, especially at the beginning and the beginning sets the tone for later. Now, I mean, in today's world, if we hadn't done it, if you, would you have to start on chess.com? Probably not, but given the time that we started and how it worke…”
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