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by akchin 1mo ago
This resonates a lot with how I felt while building our company. My kids were born during the early days of our startup and it was pretty much what he described- work and being a dad. Thankfully the startup was pretty successful and I made
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by akchin 2y ago
This sucks. I was at Google many years back and I remember her to be an awesome product leader. In fact even though I was another org, she was helpful and really helped me and our team.
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by akchin 3y ago
I can’t use them as well.
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by akchin 4y ago
Just saw this news here. He taught me at Cornell when I was a CS undergrad and I remember that class fondly. I still remember one of his office hours which was a day or two before thanksgiving. No one showed up except me and I remember thin
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by akchin 6y ago
As a 90s Indian cricket fan, this was exactly my thought :-)
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by akchin 6y ago
Delhi is DC - capital of the country, lots of politicians and bureaucrats. Also spread out quite a bit and with lots of impressive historical and government buildings. Mumbai is LA and NYC sort of combined - entertainment capital (Bollywood
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by akchin 6y ago
This is a tough one, but I would look for signals that you would look for even with non-Indians. e.g. is someone being excluded from team building activities, OR after work get togethers, OR are someone's ideas being dismissed without
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by akchin 6y ago
Kudos to your parents. I was fortunate that even while growing up in India, my parents never told me my caste and never filled it out in any school forms. If they teachers pushed for it, my parents would tell me to write Hindu, which of cou
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by akchin 7y ago
He is talking about Monday not today, Tuesday. RH didn’t work on Monday either.
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by akchin 7y ago
This is not fully accurate. You have to pay AMT on the difference between your strike price and the current 409a price of common. It doesn't have much to do with where preferred is valued, other than the fact that a high preferred valu
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by akchin 7y ago
Wow, that is cool to hear. We used to get the British coverage, so grew up with Murray Walker.
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by akchin 7y ago
Is the commentator Murray Walker by any chance :-)
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by akchin 7y ago
It shouldn't matter a lot since I am 99% sure that they were issuing RSUs at that time and not options. So the strike price based on 3-years ago valuation is not relevant. Also, I am sure the number of RSUs you got at Uber should have
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by akchin 8y ago
In general this is good advice. However I would advice against depending too much on VCs. They don’t really get it right a lot of the time. At the end of the day it is the caliber of the team, the sales/customer acquisition strategy an
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by akchin 8y ago
Ha - I think you might be thinking about 2009-2011 or so. That was the Google+ effort (under VicG) and thinking that games (like it did with Facebook) would be a key driver of growth. I think this was also around the time of the bad $180M+
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by akchin 8y ago
The comment was about how WhatsApp was good with the model they had before facebook’s acquisition and how now the model to make money is because of mbas. That is what I am commenting on. It is as if MBAs are the reason Facebook is trying to
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by akchin 8y ago
I don’t understand the MBA hate here. The WhatsApp founders don’t have MBAs and sold their company to Facebook for 19 billion. They wanted to be that rich. Nothing to do with MBAs. Also let us be clear. Engineers are no saints either. Case
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by akchin 8y ago
It is kinda cool to think that Scott himself was a really young undergraduate at Cornell. I believe he was 16 when he was a freshman at Cornell and we would hear whispers of the child prodigy in the CS department. He then graduated in 3 yea
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by akchin 9y ago
I found the article very insightful. I spent the weekend reviewing Dropbox's S1 and had the same issue - they are not being completely honest about their cohort retention numbers. They have created some new metrics/charts that sho
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by akchin 10y ago
This might be unpopular, but California is a great example of a place where taxes are high, but it is not spent well. I remember looking at this a few years back, and although the state claims that 2/3 of state tax dollars goes towards