Right, but if you say something essential in a meeting with 10 people and it has to percolate through five levels of management to reach the front-lines and gets watered down, that could be much more lost, even millions.

Scale cuts both ways.

What matters isn't how big the meeting is, it's how important the material is, and how well presented it is.

It's worth 10x that because they are all AI powered super devs now /sarc

Unless that 30-second stupid joke is what gets the audience to take your request seriously. Sometimes people will help you when you don't come across like a self-interested corporate tool.

If you assume everyone is making 100k it only takes 20 people in a meeting for it to cost 1k.

i think closer to tens-of-thousands-of-dollars, by my napkin math!

Worth it!