“It's called Surges in Savings, which sounds like a 10k road race in the state of Maine. It makes apartment heads identify what they'd be willing to cut to fund something new.”
Paul Todgum · Run the Numbers · Greenhouse’s CFO on Breaking the AI Hiring Doom Loop | Paul Todgham
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use the Surges in Savings framework to have heads identify cuts they’d be willing to make to fund new initiatives
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