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>What do you mean by that?

To some on HN, MBAs are uninformed miscreants who ruin everything. Everything but engineering is a waste of money.

I know. Cheap shots should involve more work, though.

If it involves more work, it's not a cheap shot :)

Really though, I don't have anything against what he said, nor against MBAs (...well, some MBAs maybe). It was just poking fun at vacuous sounding corporatespeak.

"Gusto is all about empowering companies to put people first."

This could mean anything or nothing. But he knew that already

In the context that it was said, it's not very ambiguous. It's obvious what they do and you can see what they're branching out into. It sounds vague and like corporate-speak on first gloss but it does make sense.

The vague mission statement of "empowering companies to put people first" that could mean literally anything from genocide to running a grocery store.

exactly. which people? employees? customers? someone else?

Just like the comment it was in response to.

>We're not just payroll and payments. Gusto is all about empowering companies to put people first.