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Took a 50% salary cut for 2% of PagerDuty as the 7th hite. I was devops but spent almost all of my time on marketing, taking us yo conferences and easily closed

Took a 50% salary cut for 2% of PagerDuty as the 7th hite. I was devops but spent almost all of my time on marketing, taking us yo conferences and easily closed enough big deals to cover my pathetically low salary. My father died a couple weeks before re:invent. In my grieving I took us there and hooked us up with netflix and yahoo, probably worth more than the funding we had at that time. During the conference a creep was hitting on our married office admin and basically stalked her. Our cto and ceo were cowards and did nothing so I protected her. Ashamed of their cowardice they fired me. A month later we hung out and they offered to bring me on as a marketing consultant. We got drunk and they admitted a higher up at YC told them to fire me because I had too much stock. I would never, ever do businesd with a YC company again. I will get shadowbanned for this post.

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strikelaserclaw 5y ago
i wonder if this sort of stuff doesn't happen more often, people without a seat at the table basically are dependent on the goodwill of the founders, investors etc... and we all know that for many people greed trumps any sort of morality. In your opinion, is there anything you could have done better to protect yourself?
dang 5y ago
> I will get shadowbanned for this post. We don't ban people for criticizing YC or YC startups (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20less%20%22not%20more%22%20yc&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). When we've banned your previous accounts, it has been for obvious abuses as we explained when we've banned you in each case, and then only after warnings that you were certainly aware of, since you responded to them (rather aggressively as I recall). I have no idea what happened at PagerDuty (though the bit about a "higher up at YC" strikes me as unlikely based on everything I've personally observed at YC). Just generally though, if you want your internet story to have credibility, you should probably omit demonstrable falsehoods.

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strikelaserclaw 5y ago

i wonder if this sort of stuff doesn't happen more often, people without a seat at the table basically are dependent on the goodwill of the founders, investors etc... and we all know that for many people greed trumps any sort of morality. In your opinion, is there anything you could have done better to protect yourself?

dang 5y ago

> I will get shadowbanned for this post. We don't ban people for criticizing YC or YC startups (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20less%20%22not%20more%22%20yc&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). When we've banned your previous accounts, it has been for obvious abuses as we explained when we've banned you in each case, and then only after warnings that you were certainly aware of, since you responded to them (rather aggressively as I recall). I have no idea what happened at PagerDuty (though the bit about a "higher up at YC" strikes me as unlikely based on everything I've personally observed at YC). Just generally though, if you want your internet story to have credibility, you should probably omit demonstrable falsehoods.