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honestly, we can probably create a category of something like, "steady growth, incredible culture" -- would that be interesting to you?

dvykhopen 4y ago
we could filter on co's who had steady growth for >2 years, potentially profitable, over 15 people, and good benefits packages. any other filters?
lmeyerov 4y ago
How about 'startups profitably growing through valuable tech/product/impact without selling increasing ownership % to ammoral speculators and probably diluting employees to zero with layoffs one bad fiscal quarter away'? More seriously, firms who can check profitable , small fund raises relative to revenue, etc (On which note, we are hiring ;-) )
- kurizu4444 4y ago
  hiring where?
  - capableweb 4y ago
    Probably graphistry.com, as it's linked in their profile. Which themselves have four outside investors (Bloomberg Beta, In-Q-Tel, Nvidia Corporation, Greylock Partners) so not sure why they are in this sub-thread when I specifically talked about jobs at non-VC funded company.
    - lmeyerov 4y ago
      We haven't taken VC $ since our initial deep tech buildout years (more public pieces includes what became nvidia rapids.ai, apache arrow[js], ..). The VC funding and later sheer effort (and supporting customers) enabled us to keep going while the market caught up. The result is we still have all our board seats, at most only talk to our customer's capital teams, and customer revenue is covering 100% of our bills + growth (+ profit). And personally, it's such a shift that 2am thoughts are more about customer success & growth vs financiers & payroll & CAC accounting mindtricks.
capableweb 4y ago
What I would be looking for is closer to "Stable headcount, profitable without venture capital investments and under 30 people in total". Edit: another thing. If 80% or more of the total headcount all come from some US-based "top university", the company is also probably not interesting for me.

dvykhopen 4y ago

we could filter on co's who had steady growth for >2 years, potentially profitable, over 15 people, and good benefits packages. any other filters?

lmeyerov 4y ago

How about 'startups profitably growing through valuable tech/product/impact without selling increasing ownership % to ammoral speculators and probably diluting employees to zero with layoffs one bad fiscal quarter away'? More seriously, firms who can check profitable , small fund raises relative to revenue, etc (On which note, we are hiring ;-) )

kurizu4444 4y ago
hiring where?
- capableweb 4y ago
  Probably graphistry.com, as it's linked in their profile. Which themselves have four outside investors (Bloomberg Beta, In-Q-Tel, Nvidia Corporation, Greylock Partners) so not sure why they are in this sub-thread when I specifically talked about jobs at non-VC funded company.
  - lmeyerov 4y ago
    We haven't taken VC $ since our initial deep tech buildout years (more public pieces includes what became nvidia rapids.ai, apache arrow[js], ..). The VC funding and later sheer effort (and supporting customers) enabled us to keep going while the market caught up. The result is we still have all our board seats, at most only talk to our customer's capital teams, and customer revenue is covering 100% of our bills + growth (+ profit). And personally, it's such a shift that 2am thoughts are more about customer success & growth vs financiers & payroll & CAC accounting mindtricks.

capableweb 4y ago

What I would be looking for is closer to "Stable headcount, profitable without venture capital investments and under 30 people in total". Edit: another thing. If 80% or more of the total headcount all come from some US-based "top university", the company is also probably not interesting for me.