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by calcsam 10y ago
Okay, that trends towards: * bigger companies * software companies (where you won't be micromanaged by a pointy-headed boss) * companies with more autonomy
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by calcsam 10y ago
Difficult to respond because it's unclear what you're looking for or what excites you. What types of problems? What types of people? It sounds like you don't have a clear answer to that. If so, your #1 problem is to find out.
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by calcsam 10y ago
In case anyone isn't sure why the original interaction is harassment: relationships within a reporting chain are generally prohibited, for both legal, ethical, and practical reasons. Sex becoming part of the effective job description c
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by calcsam 10y ago
Carlos Bueno, an early engineer at Facebook, wrote this book "Lauren Ipsum" which talks about classic computer science problems (ie traveling salesman or halting problem) in a children's story format: https://www.a
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by calcsam 10y ago
Some notes from the S-1: * "Subscription and support" revenue is about $150M, with "professional services" about $30M. This is a software company with a services side, not the other way around. That's good as softwa
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by calcsam 10y ago
"Funding for the past year is down [to $47M] from $280 million invested during the prior 12 months. (Though to be fair,the lion’s share of that, $240 million, went to China-based dating app Baihe, a decade-old category leader.)" I
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by calcsam 10y ago
Some data says no: http://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-comput... Getting a masters in CS is a good way to get a visa to the US though. Most MS CS programs are about ~20% US citizens.
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by calcsam 10y ago
Seems like you should just deduct health insurance, business operating expenses, workspace costs, and Social Security / Medicare taxes. As to what you should tell employers -- don't answer questions regarding salary expectations
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by calcsam 10y ago
OSX is one of Steve Jobs' least-discussed successes. The original Mac, Pixar, the iPod, the iPhone are all talked about -- but without OSX as a Unix-based OS, application-development on Macs, and adoption of Macs in the '00s would
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by calcsam 10y ago
There's an entire cottage industry of 3 to 5-year old series Bish startups porting Backbone // jQuery apps over to more modern frameworks. We are moving ours over to React at Plangrid (mostly done), Gusto is mostly done with
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by calcsam 10y ago
The game seems to be buggy: "King's Indian - Steven Cordy vs Martinez Garcia, Warsaw, 1991" -- it just keeps going in a loop endlessly. Neither the AI nor the game engine seems to be aware of perpetual move draw: 5 Qh6+ Kf6 4
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by calcsam 10y ago
Word on the street is that you guys pay really below-market salaries. Could you post a salary range please?
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by calcsam 10y ago
Thanks!
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by calcsam 10y ago
The most poignant line is near the end: "It's really tough to ask these [questions] without sounding obsessed with money, which feels unseemly, but you have to do it anyway." Basic due diligence on a startup offer is asking f
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by calcsam 10y ago
$10M in funding implies a valuation of $50-100M, which means a 4-8x return not a 40x return.
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by calcsam 10y ago
The main thing we need more detail on is whether the $1300 number is the per-share preferred share value (= $1B / number of shares or a per-share 409a valuation / strike price.
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by calcsam 10y ago
I actually built an app to do this kind of calculation. It walks you through each of the calculation steps and variables involved, along with context: http://www.optionvalue.io/ The main pieces of information you need to kn
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by calcsam 10y ago
> That puts him in the top one-hundredth of one percent of all public pension recipients in California. If Johansen is unrepresentative of the average, it would be nice to give some stats on what the average actually is.
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by calcsam 10y ago
An old colleague of mine, who'd worked for an LA-based tech company for 10 years, went to hand in his resignation. He was moving to Charlotte so he could be with his girlfriend. His boss begged him to stay -- he could even work remotel
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by calcsam 10y ago
That is a pretty big assumption, and I would like to highlight it more. The reason why it's a reasonable assumption is that in any material outcome, common share preferences converge to preferred share preferences. Yes, once in a whi
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by calcsam 10y ago
Thanks! Am building out more stuff & would love to hear your take. My email is in profile, would shoot you an email but don't see your contact info?
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by calcsam 10y ago
If cash-out is around latest valuation, weird terms will only change the $ amount by <10% or so. If cash-out is less than the latest valuation, then it starts mattering. At ~40-50% of latest valuation, common shares can end up effectivel
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by calcsam 10y ago
Uber's attracted a lot of attention over how it issues stock, because as the largest private unicorn, there are billions of dollars of wealth currently locked up in illiquid stock held by employees who would prefer to sell it. With all
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by calcsam 10y ago
The simplest heuristic to use is to assume the company exits at its latest valuation and do the calculations of what your options would be worth in that case. Then, understand when your company could (at soonest) go public, given that growt
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by calcsam 10y ago
No, this is not just a problem you're having. I was an early engineer at Zenefits and found myself holding stock options seminars to explain this stuff to the rest of the engineers. I built optionvalue.io as a calculator to help people
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by calcsam 10y ago
I've watched other people lose their friends, significant others, and marriages doing this. What's especially tragic, and far more common, when people do this in less impactful situations where they have far less to gain from succ
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by calcsam 10y ago
One of my favorite econ professors at Stanford got an inquiry from a big oil company. They wanted her to do some consulting for them, relevant to mergers, acquisitions and the result on oil prices. She wanted to politely tell them no. So sh
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by calcsam 10y ago
wow, thanks!
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by calcsam 10y ago
My wife studies domestic violence and notes that there is no code for strangulation. Talk about bike-shedding.
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by calcsam 10y ago
If you're raising from anyone in the US, you need to create a Delaware C-corp.

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