Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

1. They're bored and want some challenge.

2. They can't stand being near their wife, husband or kids.

3. They like making money.

4. They're genuinely passionate about whatever niche topic they picked to focus on.

You can only use your toys so much before they get boring.

That's fun for a week, maybe even a month, then you'd get bored. Humans need purpose and we like structure. Complete freedom terrifies and unsettles us.

Source: All my life I wanted nothing but to have enough cash in bank to take a year off and do whatever. When I got it ... at first I panicked, then I considered the boundless possibilities, then realized I have no idea what to do with that much money, put it in index funds, and went back to work. Now it sits there as a source of comfort and potential.

A modest fuck you fund that makes me feel better and gives me that sense of Oh yeah, if I stop liking my situation, I can afford to do whatever I want for a year or two without compromising my lifestyle

Caveat: that's the rich who are self-made. The rich who are 2nd/3rd generation on the other hand, can spend money like there's no tomorrow (source: my experience hobnobbing w/the wealthy haha), and an entire industry has grown to "suport" their needs (swiss watch not enough? here's a swiss watch with diamonds... cartier diamonds, thank you very much. $20 organic, grass fed burger not good enough? here's a truffle infused, foie gras embedded burger for $100, TYVM... ad nauseum).

I showed up and there were a handful of people, turns out the coworker had rented the whole track (and skid pad) for the weekend for “trying out” different driving moves. I expect it cost them less than $100,000 for the weekend.

But the engineer in question here probably had a net worth of more than $50M and yet they came into work every day and built cool stuff.

Now the Sun case was more “typical” of the valley at the time where a company goes public and now there are lots of millionaires in the ranks. Same thing at Google when they went public, and Facebook. In my experience it is the unusual case that the newly wealthy person quits work and pursues a life of idle hedonism.

Not saying that it doesn’t happen, just saying that there is an alternative response to being wealthy.

> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I've used Meraki, Aruba, Ruckus, and Cisco Aironet and have had no problems with any of them. They all have a duty cycle and radios don't last indefinitely. Usually what I find is someone brings in an old Linksys G-band AP and that squelches an area, the older radios are a lot noisier.