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takklzon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)

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What's up friends! I am a Senior Salesforce Developer and Architect that has worked in high tech software companies for the last 10 years. I recently tried my hand at entrepreneurship that unfortunately did not workout, so I am back on the job hunt! I am really open to anything. I have worked with internal RevOps teams with Sales, Finance, Customer Support, and much more. I have spent time in consulting as well, and have no problem working directly with clients as a Customer Success Manger or Sales Engineer etc. If anyone has anything interesting feel free to ping me for sure! I also have a lot of other software engineering skills (Ruby on Rails, VueJS, Nuxt, TailwindCSS).

Location: Pensacola, FL - Fairhope, AL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Skills/Technologies: (LWC, APEX, Salesforce CPQ, basically everything salesforce has to offer! haha)

Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorkrause/

Email: taylorkrause@gmail.com

takklzon AI pro se lawsuit targets $15B shell-company fraud at pharma giant

This is actually super interesting use case for AI.

It’s no secret that corporate litigation take a significant amount of time and money in lawyers fees (corporate attorneys are expensive obviously). But if you can navigate a case Pro Se via a AI does the cost burden on the corporation effectively turn the tables on the ROI calculation.

takklzon Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

I remember where I wanted an intel pentium 4 back in the day so bad!

takklzon Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce

Same thought I had. Almost everything piece of technology that I use is broken in some way. UI bugs, connection issues, missing obvious features, missing non obvious features that might be specific to me, terrible UI, etc etc.

If AI is so useful that it can fully replace engineers or other humans, why aren’t products next level amazing?

If the barrier to entry for these high margin tech companies becomes so low that they no longer even need employees, isn’t the next step to compete on quality?

takklzon Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

https://youtu.be/KRxe2Gw1F0k

Kinda aligns with what you’re saying

takklzon OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

Geeeeeze

takklzon OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

The rank and file equity pitch is quickly falling apart…

takklzon Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?

Isn’t the 409a valuation FMV? I thought that the whole point of the 409a valuation was to find FMV? Do you mean par value?

takklzon Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?

You don’t keep the shares?

takklzon Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?

Sorry, you’re right. There should be a third option

3) You keep the shares and hope for the best outcome. (If they don’t want you to then go back to 1 or 2)z

takklzon Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?

Ahhh yes same thing

takklzon Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?

My two cents…

1) They buyout the shares. If they don’t want to do that then…

2) Sell the company.

If either of these can’t happen the company is dead and everyone parts ways. It’s as simple as that. No free rides here.

takklzon Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?

This is a joke right? Seed investors will get 10-30% of a company for under a million dollars which will be blown through in less than a year. That’s means they’re a drag on the cap table right?

takklzon Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?

The juice has to be worth the squeeze. No sense in fighting against fiduciary duty, minority shareholder oppression, etc., etc. unless there is some sort of value there. This usually means a successful exit before taking action.

takklzon Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

I've listened to so many CEOs in various industries (not just tech) salivating at the potential ability to cutout the software engineering middle man to make their ideas come to life (from PMs, to Engineers, to Managers, etc.). They truly believe the AI revolution is going to make them god's gift to the world.

I on the other hand, see the exact opposite happening. AI is going to make people even more useful, with significant productivity gains, in actuality creating MORE WORK for humans and machines alike to do.

Leaders who embrace this approach are going to be the winners. Leaders who continue to follow the hype will be the losers, although there will probably be some scam artists who are winners in the short term who are riding the hype cycle just like crypto.

takklzon Startup Equity 101

Just something I’ve seen lately at all of the startups I’ve worked at…

The founders, early investors, etc., will cash out way before you do and you will not have the same ability to sell as they did. I’ve seen it tear companies apart. YMMV

takklzon Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope

I get migraines when I drink too much water! Not even kidding. Full blown visual aura followed by intense pain for a day.

takklzon Founder of vacasa dunking on pacaso, doesn't get much worse than that

hahaha

takklzon What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues

Let me know how it goes!

takklzon What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues

I have gotten migraines (a visual aura followed by a horrible headache) on and off for years. Some years I’d have a couple, some years I’d have none at all. I have always tried to trace it back to a common theme. For the longest time I thought that common theme was caffeine.. to the point that I quit caffeine for like a year. Unfortunately, I still ended up with a migraine! One day I realized something, maybe my migraines had nothing to do with caffeine but everything to do with electrolyte balance. I recalled the many days I’ve had migraines and besides caffeine, the other common theme was that I had drank a significant amount of water. Sparkling water especially, I can pretty much just guzzle all day because I never get bored or sick of it. Sense then, I’ve made sure that if I drink a lot of water I also throw in some LMNT or similar electrolyte powder in there. I’ve been able to enjoy coffee again without the migraine. YMMV!

takklzon Dehydration associated with poorer performance on attention tasks among adults

Agreed.. if I guzzle water without adding in electrolytes I get a guaranteed migraine aura with vision loss.

takklzon On Migraine Scintillating Scotomas

Same here! Especially if I have multiple days of caffeine abuse. Weirdly, if I have too much caffeine and go exercise I get one of these guaranteed. I’m guessing some sort of relationship between caffeine and electrolyte depletion? No idea, I try to stay away from caffeine now.

takklzon Attorney General Bonta Releases Name, DOB, and Address of CCW Holders

Nope, you're wrong. Each tableau dashboard component also had a link to download the underlying source data. You didn't have to even go through the html page source, it was readily available via standard tableau functionality. After it was discovered that the underlying data included PII information, they underlying data was replaced with a csv file missing that data. The csv file even said like "full data - copy.csv". Whether or not they meant to do it, that's open to interpretation. But my headline was accurate.

takklzon Attorney General Bonta Releases Name, DOB, and Address of CCW Holders

I think it got either hugged to death or removed

takklzon Attorney General Bonta Releases Name, DOB, and Address of CCW Holders

See: https://old.reddit.com/r/CAguns/comments/vm723i/attorney_gen...

takklzon Boston’s biggest AI startup faces firestorm of criticism

I see it at pretty much every tech company these days.

takklzon Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter

For venture capital backed tech companies at least, isn't one of the largest expenses salaries? Doesn't it almost benefit companies to have more employees at a higher salary expense to bolster huge valuations?

takklzon GiveSendGo Hacked as Names of Freedom Convoy Donors Apparently Leaked

Holy shit. I worked with the person who founded this company once upon a time.

takklzon California’s affordable housing problem is really a national one

This is pretty cool!

takklzon Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught

The put options im seeing for 1 year out at $320 currently cost $24,000. (1 contract at 100 shares) what are you looking at that I am not? Am I looking at the wrong thing?

Edit: (sorry I’m not an expert in options)