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by calcsam 6y ago
As a comparison, when Zenefits offered two months of severance and four months of COBRA (less than Coinbase), 10% of the company took it. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/20/zenefits-ceo-says-about-10-p...
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by calcsam 6y ago
Also note: the author isn't actually advocating playing these games. Just describing how they work. ----- "[These rituals] are macro-useful in a sense that they allow humans to generate billions of dollars of productive activity.
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by calcsam 7y ago
Not a WeWork fan, but why does it matter if Adam Neumann could be a branch manager at Staples? Steve Jobs was known for walking around Reed College barefoot in the snow, but that didn't stop him & Woz from building Apple.
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by calcsam 7y ago
Interestingly, a lot of open-source companies have built defensible businesses -- a list is over at http://oss.cash . Recent IPOs include Mulesoft, Elastic, Mongo, Fastly... More specifically to Gatsby, we don't actually see
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by calcsam 7y ago
Thanks! That's really great to hear!
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by calcsam 7y ago
It's actually quite common to use Wordpress as a backend for a Gatsby site. So: build your UI in React with Gatsby, store your content with Wordpress. There's an out-of-the-box Wordpress/Gatsby integration, and we recently hi
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by calcsam 7y ago
Thanks! We're really excited to be able to invest even more in open source. If there are particular features that would be helpful for you please open an issue on the repo!
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by calcsam 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Gatsby has existed as an open-source project for >4 years, but we just launched our CMS Preview in open beta about 3 months ago -- lots more to come on that front!
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by calcsam 7y ago
Yep! Right now we're seeing a mix of customers that's roughly 1/3 web development agencies, 1/3 e-commerce websites, and 1/3 B2C lead generation websites. The value proposition of Gatsby to website agencies is worki
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by calcsam 7y ago
Gatsby co-founder here. We're super excited for this so we can make Gatsby even more awesome. Happy to answer any Qs!
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by calcsam 7y ago
Thanks for building Clockwise. Our entire team uses it, and it's quite useful for blocking off chunks of time. The one part where we run into trouble is: we give our Calendly links a ton to external folks to schedule meetings. Now eith
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by calcsam 7y ago
Thanks for building this! I spent a year building this as a side project and never got anywhere in terms of adoption, so abandoned it. The world really needs this and excited that you're picking up the torch. Your vesting calculator is
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by calcsam 8y ago
It's interesting how this appears just after Elizabeth Warren's call to break up the big tech companies. I don't agree with Warren's stance, but hats off to Spotify for nice PR campaign timing.
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by calcsam 8y ago
That would be good. Runway is one metric -- the one I'm most interested is "how long are you _planning_ the A to last for?" If you raise eg $10M and you ramp burn to $400k monthly, the answer is 24 months. Regardless of where
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by calcsam 8y ago
Burn is the numerator, $ raised or cash-in-the-bank is the denominator. Would be really good to get a 2x2 grid of monthly burn x money raised for Series A companies. Or if that's too hard, a "Months the Series A will last at at cu
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by calcsam 8y ago
Well-deserved -- congrats to Chris, Matt and the whole Netlify team!
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by calcsam 8y ago
This article seems to conflate "remote work" and "being a digital nomad". Lots of people work remotely without being digital nomads. Lots of people have families and work out of a home office. Especially folks over the a
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by calcsam 8y ago
This is an extremely solid financial statement. $150M in revenue, growing ~100% per year; I'd project a valuation between $3B and $4B. Twilio, Mulesoft, and MongoDB are probably the best comparables here -- open-source and dev-tools ba
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by calcsam 8y ago
These financials don't look great. They earned $219M last year and $205M the year before. That's a top-line revenue growth rate of around 6% -- more common for an old-line company like IBM. SaaS startups are supposed to have reven
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by calcsam 9y ago
This is copying the Opendoor business model. Keith Rabois, an Opendoor founder / investor, claims this is vaporware and implies this is trying to block an ongoing funding round: https://twitter.com/rabois/status&#x
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by calcsam 9y ago
At-will employment has nothing to do with this. At-will employment just means your employer has no contractual obligation to continue employing you for any period of time. Certain actions are still illegal under state / federal law suc
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by calcsam 9y ago
Pagerduty.
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by calcsam 9y ago
Most in-office catered lunches are a lot more healthy than a burger or pizza.
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by calcsam 9y ago
"Monty," says God. "Here are three gates. Behind one of them is heaven...." - https://twitter.com/ATabarrok/status/914318431297708032
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by calcsam 9y ago
That's great to hear!
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by calcsam 9y ago
Sorry to hear that! We're focusing on build performance and incremental site builds and will be releasing a major version bump by the end of the year to make the experience faster.
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by calcsam 9y ago
You could start by practicing your written English skills. This is generally a must-have to get into Google.
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by calcsam 9y ago
Static sites are becoming more and more popular -- you can host them on CDNs across the globe, they can be cached client-side, pre-loaded, work offline.... Especially important thinking about the billions of people in developing countries a
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by calcsam 9y ago
Here's a hint as to why you might be having trouble: http://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-comput...
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by calcsam 9y ago
In other words, they didn't actually give away their "secret sauce" by answering the VPs questions. What they did do was convince the VP that the product would be easy to build in-house. Ironically, that was actually false as

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