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As an early Eventbrite employee who saw the company grow from 10 to 200 people, this feels surreal.
by buf 8y ago
As an early Eventbrite employee who saw the company grow from 10 to 200 people, this feels surreal.
- immad 8y agoAre you happy about it?
- buf 8y agoI moved on from Eventbrite years ago, but the lessons I learned and the friends I made were incredible. I'm happy for everyone involved.
- chatmasta 8y agoHopefully you're also happy to be exercising some stock options!
- ppierald 8y agoWe're still removing your code. Thanks buf. :)
- buf 8y agoHa! Would've IPO'd 5 years ago without all that nasty code.
- pbreit 8y agoIs my EPP gone?
- swyx 8y agosuggestion - throw up a "isbufgoneyet" site that tracks % of original buf code no longer in master (according to git blame or whatever is the best way to do it). would be a fun afternoon project.
- buf 8y agoIn the summer of 2012, I rewrote literally every line of the front end to prep for international launches in the sense that every line had me as the git blame author. I'm actually pretty curious how much is left.
- sachin18590 8y agoI always wondered how the stock exercising process feels like for an early employee who has left company few years before the IPO. Is there any feeling of lost opportunities amidst all the happiness of the exit?
- donnfelker 8y agoBuf! Good to see you're still around. :fist-bump:
- buf 8y agoNow there's a name I haven't seen in a while. Thanks for that mobile work all those years ago! :D
- gedy 8y agoFunny story is my company at the time looked at acquiring EventBrite about 10? years ago, and as part of the integration eval, I happened to run the ab command against their endpoint. Few minutes later VP ran to my office and told me to stop as EventBrite called saying we were DDOSing them. Congrats to EventBrite on going public. Am glad you stayed independent, as my company would have ruined them, like many other acquisitions..
- buf 8y agoI was likely panicking not knowing anything at that time. Such a wild time of chaos and coffee overdoses.
- barkingcat 8y agoIt could have been you who saved them from ruin! I imagine the conversation in the back "Do you believe it? Gedy's megacorp tried to ddos us!" "Accidentally! they were trying to run ab" "Well, even so, we don't want to sell to them anymore." And now they are going public.
- swyx 8y agonot a pro *nix guy here - what is the ab command and why does it make sense as part of an integration eval?