Software

I guess online meetings just aren’t good enough. Even Zoom is requiring people to go back to the office. You would think that Zoom would stick to remote work just to eat their own dogfood but I guess not. The bit in the article from an economics professor at Stanford is strange, especially from an economics professor. He says that “If you are paying for office space and high Bay Area salaries it makes sense to operate on a hybrid schedule.

Sometimes you just dodge a bullet. A little over a year ago, I congratulated Hashicorp on going public and mused a little about buying shares. However, I did not because the valuation seemed a little high. Based on this chart, I would say that’s a correct assessment. I’ve missed on my share of stocks. The one I really blew was Coupang. I fell for that one hook line and sinker. Part of my problem there was that I’ve been to Seoul a couple of times in the past five years or so and really like it.

I was glad to see Hashicorp go public the other day. They make some really great tools and I love Terraform. Packer and Vagrant are also very useful tools. It’s nice that an open source company is getting this kind of a splash. I’m thinking about buying some shares but I might wait for a little bit of a pullback. A $15 billion dollar market cap seems steep. I’ll revisit in early 2022 to see what it looks like then.