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Jul 2, 2021Liked by Byrne Hobart

Re signing bonuses, I wonder if existing employees get them too - otherwise you have a resentful existing workforce getting paid less than newcomers or everyone churns to get signing bonuses elsewhere.

There is a delicious irony to American suing Sabre over search results - of course American built and owned Sabre and they were the pioneers in fudging search results so that American flights would come out on top when travel agents searched their gds - they worked all of this out a decade before the internet even existed.

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Also, re Taboola and Outbrain, Reply All did an excellent episode a couple of years ago examining the mechanics and economics of a chumbox ad campaign:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reply-all/id941907967?i=1000414295542

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