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Sami Honkonen

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Sami Honkonen's personal blog at samihonkonen.com covers startups and ai. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A sales team without bonuses”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2014–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Sami Honkonen's posts on running sales teams without bonuses, cited as support for the idea that pay structures can change sales culture. The only comment is a bare citation.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal site of Sami Honkonen.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A sales team without bonuses
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Some people believe that: http://www.tintup.com/blog/why-our-startup-got-rid-of-sales-... http://www.samihonkonen.com/a-sales-team-without-bonuses/ http://www.yesware.com/blog/moving-salespeople-off-a-bonus-h...

    Comment linking /a-sales-team-without-bonuses/

    on “Amazon's No Outlier: The Science Behind Broken Work Cultures”
  2. Submitted A Love Letter to Exe.dev as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Guidance injection: reliable instructions for local LLMs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted An Agent Capability Library as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A sales team without bonuses as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Purpose-built local AI agents as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Definition of leadership in three sentences, explained as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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