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by aiisahik 6y ago
Which kind of Asians are being under-promoted? Satya, Sundar, Arvind? Only East Asians are underpromoted. As and East Asian myself, I believe (1) You should read this article and study: https://www.economist.com/business&#x2
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by aiisahik 6y ago
Again, it's the prestige of the social club that gives them credibility - not the academic excellence of its students. The students who have mediocre grades but very rich parents actually might actually have a better chance at success
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by aiisahik 6y ago
As an Asian who went to an Ivy, I welcome this change. Yes, it will mask a policy of keeping the proportion of Asians lower than a race neutral policy. Yes, it's racially discriminatory. Yes, it's somewhat unfair to Asians who are
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by aiisahik 6y ago
Gourmet Growth | Senior Backend Engineer | Full-time | Onsite or Remote | New York, NY | https://www.gourmetgrowth.com Gourmet Growth is a fintech startup reinventing small business financing by using real time banking, accounti
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by aiisahik 8y ago
The article is right but misses the biggest problem with options: the need to spend money you may never get back in order to have a chance to be paid anything. There are two ways this happens: - You leave the company after 4 years and have
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by aiisahik 8y ago
Sketch is suffering from the result its own breath-taking success. As a result of its incredible popularity, too many other companies with larger war chests have started to compete against it head to head - Adobe XD - Invision Studio - Fig
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by aiisahik 8y ago
Don't over-optimize for the investor. If your startup lands in trouble, no investor is going to dig you out of it. What should you over-optimize for? Flexibility. Over-optimize for the ability for your business to become a cashflow po
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by aiisahik 8y ago
> I feel like I'm on crazy-pills with this topic. No one links to my page, hardly any orgs run these experiments, no one upvotes them on Reddit or HN Gwern is on crazy pills because this is a feature not a bug. Your users are there
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by aiisahik 8y ago
I wasn't hired for my legal skills or experience and the companies I worked at had their own outside counsel that they paid for. I was sometimes asked to get involved in legal issues but that was less than 1% of my work. The founders u
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by aiisahik 8y ago
Your question is how can you continue to be compensated highly in this fast changing industry that already compensates very well. It's a tough question and I don't think anyone has a magic bullet for you. Here's some general
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by aiisahik 8y ago
For the employees of a VC backed company, the liquidation preference of its investors is cage - a cage that you can't break out of unless you become a billion dollar business. This is a wonderful story and I have such enormous respect
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by aiisahik 8y ago
I think there are two cures for this issue: 1. Expose the pay disparity at Oracle and other companies so candidates know ahead of time what they are getting themselves into. 2. Make it easier for any H1B employee to get a job at a different
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by aiisahik 8y ago
Nobody should on Glassdoor to determine if they should work at a company. One should always rely on back channel contacts, preferably of people who no longer work at that company. Can one of you smart people here at HN develop a Glass Door
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by aiisahik 8y ago
Diligence for an equity round = when lawyers who represent the investors go through all the documents of a company. If something looks bad, they will make the company and its attorneys fix it, incurring time and legal fees. This usually doe
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by aiisahik 8y ago
I love the idea behind this - so many contracts are unnecessarily impossible to read. However, I am going to be really honest - as the CTO of a company who regularly hires freelancers and as a former lawyer, I would never sign this contract
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by aiisahik 8y ago
I understand the concerns expressed here but how about someone actually suggested a solution to this issue? The oauth thing is not going to work. No bank will implement it or even if a few do, it will not provide the coverage Plaid offers.
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by aiisahik 8y ago
As an Australian citizen who has spent many years in the US, I can say that this law is in line with the main ideology of the Australian government: extreme parentalism. You run a red light: fine for $450 in the mail. No court date, no argu
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by aiisahik 8y ago
As an Australian citizen who has spent many years in the US, I can say that this law is in line with the main ideology of the Australian government: extreme parentalism. You run a red light: fine for $450 in the mail. No court date, no ar
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by aiisahik 8y ago
I once wrote a thesis on DMCA and Youtube during that huge Viacom vs Youtube litigation was going on. The copyright holders wanted to shift more of the burden of detecting and blocking copyright breach onto the web services by removing the
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by aiisahik 8y ago
I was a lawyer for a big SV law firm for 2.5 years doing company options, VC funding rounds and M&A. Then I was an early employee and engineer for a startup 5 years. I've seen this from multiple angles and the folks with a lot of s
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by aiisahik 10y ago
100% accurate. I did the same and also quit.
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by aiisahik 11y ago
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