Gergely Orosz

14 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2022 by Gergely Orosz · said 6 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Nov 17, 2022 positive
Insight
Orosz: High-effort newsletter articles create immediate annual revenue raises
“I had a spreadsheet that I maintained for the first year of the publication where I listed for every article, how much did my annual revenue go up a week later? So kind of tracking, like, what was the impact? And the crazy thing was that you know, when I wrote…”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 11:59 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 neutral
Insight
Orosz: Solo newsletters cannot achieve traditional exits without building an organization
“From what we're doing, It's really tied to us. So however much or little my newsletter will make, you know, it'll have a value, let's say four or five times the annual revenue as a business, but you cannot really sell it like that and you cannot really walk aw…”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 47:36 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 negative
Opinion
Orosz: Code comments mean the code should be refactored and deleted
“If there's a comment to the code, that means that comments should be deleted and you should just refactor the whole thing.”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 57:51 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Orosz earns more from his newsletter than his $330,000 Uber peak
“Now I am making more in compensation that I made at Uber and The difference is that now my compensation, well, my earnings are keep going up as long as the newsletter is growing.”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 10:10 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022
Disclosure
Orosz: Pragmatic Engineer newsletter posts double as serialized book chapters
“I had the sneaky idea. Of, hey, what if I wrote this book where I kind of write some posts that will be part of the book, and then the book will just kind of come together partially. And I, I've kind of been doing that. I haven't been telling people, but some …”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 31:45 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 negative
Insight
Orosz: Uber engineering middle managers lacked authority and team budgets
“What no one told me is, yes, I was a manager, but I was a middle manager. I didn't have too much authority. I didn't even have a budget for my team. Like, you know, someone was underpaid and I couldn't do anything except complain for HR for six months and hope…”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 24:45 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 positive
Opinion
Orosz: Having big tech employer pedigree drives audience attention for writers
“So there's, especially these days, like a lot, people would not pay nearly as much attention to me if I worked at, you know, small parts limited.”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 1:03:40 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022
Disclosure
Orosz plans to reduce newsletter work hours from 50 to 20 weekly
“One of my goals for the next few years is to not spend 50 hours a week on a newsletter, which I'm doing right now, but spend 20.”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 52:12 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 positive
Insight
Orosz: Professionals should set controllable input goals, not outcome targets
“One is the goal, you know, people will set this goal. I want to be promoted the next thing, or I want to lead this big project. And those are bad goals because it's not in your control. So setting similar, setting a goal that I want to have a successful newsle…”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 1:02:11 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Orosz: Pragmatic Engineer gained 1,000 paid subscribers in its first six weeks
“I announced my newsletter. I told people I'm gonna go full-time on this. I had maybe 10,000 Twitter followers and I don't know, like maybe a thousand on LinkedIn or something like that. And people started signing up the next day. I had a hundred subscribers in…”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 54:57 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 positive
Insight
Orosz: Writing faces less competition than YouTube as creators shift to video
“These days, fewer people write because I think a lot of people find it hard and more people will do videos. And you can take advantage of some of these shifts, you know, like which might be good or bad. So if you're gonna be a really well-known person on YouTu…”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 1:11:18 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Orosz: Uber laid off my team members without informing me beforehand
“Uber did layoffs in April and it was really stressful. So it was the first time I didn't lay anyone off, but people on my team were laid off. I wasn't told who's going to be laid up.”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 23:21 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Orosz: Peak total compensation at Uber in Europe was $330,000
“In my best year at Uber, I made about like 320 or 330,000 dollars in total compensation. This was after Uber went public. So it's, it includes the stock, the base salary, the bonus, which was very, very good in Europe.”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 9:29 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Nov 17, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Orosz made $100,000 in one year self-publishing tech books
“This book, Building Mobile Apps at Scale, another book that I published about tech resumes. I just wrote these in a few months. They started making money. They made about a 100,000 dollars in the first year.”
Gergely Orosz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 18:03 Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
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