Has anyone ever had a customer leverage a 3rd party negotiator, like Tropic, during deal negotiations? Basically they negotiate price and terms with you on behalf of the customer. They get info from you, go back to the customer for feedback and then come back with counter offers/demands. Source: about 1 year ago

Side note: If you're getting requests from your clients for this type of service, you probably also have an opening to ad-sell your own "SaaS negotiation service". Over the past few years, services like Vendr, Tropic and Sastrify have been booming on the same value-add, and they typically begin invoicing from 3  000 $/client/month. Source: over 1 year ago

* Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure ( All of our teams have unique charters to collectively build the software, services and systems that enable Pilot to deliver a high-quality experience, profitably, at scale. From the Banking Universe — teams that ingest, normalize, transform, and categorize customer financial data to the Business Universe — teams that ingest our customer revenue and expense information... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Pilot (https://pilot.com/) | Full-time | Onsite (SF) | Sr Software Engineer (Backend or Full-Stack) Pilot is a Series-C funded, 7-year-old successful startup that partners with other companies to run their financial back office. We let small businesses focus on what they do best -- running their business -- and offload to us the financial back office. We build software that makes this possible: software that... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Curious to get this groups thoughts on fractional hiring. I’ve seen companies like Shiny or Pilot pilot that offer fractional c-suite folks, and I’m curious if anyone here has considered using any of these services - or what stopped you from pursuing a fractional hire? Source: about 1 year ago

They should use it to create even more net positives for society (Like the founders of Pilot did, see here). Most of them at the moment find that helping other 'potential future billionaires' is a pretty good way of doing this (This is what a VC fund is generally, or Angel investors, very different dynamics to zero-sum investors). But I don't think you'll find any that just sit there with it. Besides - the whole... Source: over 1 year ago

The company on which this laptop is locked is Pilot.com. Source: over 1 year ago