I moved to the USA in 2016 thanks to Peters help and every successful interaction I have had with USCIS since then has been because of his sage advice. You will not find a more knowledgeable or kind adviser than Peter.

That's good to hear. Thanks!

I don't think new theatre releases are generally getting leak in digital formats anymore until they hit streaming which can sometimes be as soon as weeks or couple months after original release. Obviously 'tele-syncs' (cameras capturing the film) still exist but that wasn't your question. The one exception to this can be oscar movie season when studios release films via a special Apple TV app and that be be slightly less secure (though still water-marked).

I would ask you to support your claim of 'high quality digital dumps' by citing one that has come out in the last couple years. See https://predb.net/

> A telesync (TS) is a bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater, often (although not always) filmed using a professional camera on a tripod in the projection booth. The audio of a TS is captured with a direct connection to the sound source (often an FM microbroadcast provided for the hearing-impaired, or from a drive-in theater). If a direct connection from the sound source is not possible, sometimes the bootlegger will tape or conceal wireless microphones close to the speakers, as it is better than a mic on the camera. A TS can be considered a higher quality type of cam, that has the potential of better-quality audio and video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesync

This has an analog (so to speak) in the live music bootlegging subculture. If you can convince the roadie running the mixer or the sound board to plug in your shady recording device, then you can cut a bootleg record or tape which advertises that as a selling point.

Live audio bootlegs of concerts are typically plagued with the same sort of interference, such as crowd noise, shaky everything, cheap microphone designed for voices only, overwhelming decibel levels, etc. A "clean soundboard" recording can bypass all that and sound comparatively good, especially if the band is good at playing live.

There is a lot of great content here though I worry some of it is quickly becoming outdated. Every three months google has been updating their spam filters and making it harder and harder deliver sales emails at scale.

As evidence of this, look at Rift.com a YC/Sequoia-backed sales email tool that closely followed this same playbook but was forced to kill their service as Google made it increasingly difficult to deliver sales messages at scale.

Conversion rates use to be 1-10% from email to meeting booking. Now I believe most teams are seeing significantly below 1%.

> updating their spam filters and making it harder and harder to deliver sales emails at scale

Good

> sales emails at scale

That's a great definition for spam.

Maybe partly because everyone wants to "meet" or "have a quick chat" now. Used to be novel if they just wanted to chat not straight sell. Now we've wised up

Hello. I don't have any questions but just wanted to share that I found Peter through one of these threads 9 years ago and his work and advice has been incredibly helpful in ensuring my continued ability to live and work in America through a variety of situations. I highly recommend using his services and listening to his sage advice.

That's very kind of you. Thank you.

The following was advice an accomplished PhD wrote to me discouraging me from co-founding Pretty Litter which would eventually become a billion dollar (sold to Mars) CPG business: “here is some free consulting advice: you need to think very carefully through the economics and competitive environment of the cat litter business. At the end of the day there needs to be a real business, not just an exercise in PR and crowdfunding, and the risk-reward in cat litter is not at all appealing.

Cat litter is a commodity product, and there are huge brands that know how to manufacture, distribute, advertise, and market it at massive scale. There are already other color-changing cat litter products. Your team has zero expertise, IP, or competitive advantages in manufacturing, chemistry, consumer products, animal health, diagnostics, or distribution. Cat litter is not an industry that needs disruption.”

That's not bad advice - you just managed to overcome a lot of real obstacles. Humble brag.

I'm guessing he was "accomplished" in writing papers and sounding smart, rather than in a way that'd pay off his mortgage?

Hope you forwarded him a newspaper clipping about the sale

So how did you overcome your "zero expertise, IP, or competitive advantages" limitations, assuming they were accurate?

When you work really hard at something, you get pretty good at it

Was it only the last sentence that was wrong?

Would you mind indicating what advice you think the PhD person should have written to you based on what they knew of you at the time?

Genuinely curious, and thank you for the anecdote.

lol, excellent idea.

Lol I didn't notice that they photoshopped turtlenecks onto every employee's photo.

No, the salary does not reflect the additional working day whatsoever.

Then why even consider it? You're giving up 50% of your weekend for nothing.

What the recruiter said when I asked him to clarify was "Our understanding so far that is that it's FT on-site Mon-Sat."

Well apparently they have hundreds of customers which sounds pretty impressive for a young company and they have Tier 1 investors which is often a good sign. They seem to have a highly differentiated product with a large TAM in smart niche.

On the other hand, the founder/CEO is very young/inexperienced which could explain some of the unusual management style.

So these points address the "traction" part of your appraisal. What makes the role or working for them great?