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by kzhahou 12y ago
We have an inequality problem in our own backyard: the disparity in equity between CEOs, SVPs/upper management, and rank-and-file employees. I remember all the stories of how google made 1000 millionaires at IPO. Wonderful! They buil
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by kzhahou 12y ago
It's typical for the founder to hold 2-5 times as much equity as all employees combined . We can argue risk all day long. I claim this is a severe imbalance, and one day silicon valley workers will wake up to it and demand more for
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by kzhahou 12y ago
People always talk about the terrible NOISE in open office plans. For me, I hate the feeling of BEING WATCHED. It's just unnerving. There's people all around me with low cube walls... * I want to stare ahead as I focus - someone
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Humor prohibited.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
> Houston is also working hard to ensure that Dropbox feels like a collection of peers, at all levels of the company But that surely doesn't extend to equity, where the founder holds an order of magnitude or two more than his VP of
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by kzhahou 12y ago
As April 1 pranks go, this is a great one. Totally deadpan, plausible language, no obvious giveaways except for the overall absurdity.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
I think the relationship was only a small part of this case. The real issue was whether she was denied promotion, which she claimed was given to her underperforming male colleagues.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
That's too simplistic. Pao's claims had huge holes. * She was sent to the back row during a retreat! (except the day before, when she was given front row) * She wasn't given enough guidance and didn't have a fair shot
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Few startups die because someone else stepped in. Most of the time they die by their own mistakes.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
This article agrees with you: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102537722
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by kzhahou 12y ago
The article talks about the work that Sacca did by tenaciously evangelizing Twitter in the early days. I don't think the article mentioned it, but he did the same for Instagram. He was all over it, posting non-stop! You shouldn'
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by kzhahou 12y ago
I don't need to read a story on mediocrity, since I'm already living it! :-)
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by kzhahou 12y ago
I love python, and this is a terrible article, as many others have said here. You have to understand that these articles are written for a number of reasons: * The company (here, paypal/ebay) needs to recruit people. * Often, the lan
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by kzhahou 12y ago
There's an interesting article by William Gates in that issue: https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYT...
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by kzhahou 12y ago
That's not what "frivolous" means.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
This article contains better quotes from the ruling: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/21/8267273/judge-in-kleiner-p... "Defendant Kleiner Perkins’ motion for nonsuit on plaintiff Ms. Pao’s request for
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by kzhahou 12y ago
True. Reading HN must obviously be work, since we all spend so much time here when we're supposed to be working instead :-)
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Actually, the modern interpretation is that it's ok to take an order and store it in an in-memory database, but you can't commit a transaction to disk or even write it to logs. This functionality is built into ShabbatDB (shabbatd
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Good luck! I hope you guys do well and deliver an awesome product :-)
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by kzhahou 12y ago
It's not solving difficult problems in algorithms, systems engineering, hardware, ML, AI, etc. Nothing wrong with that. But using today's technology in web and mobile to build a highly-usable customer experience, is not what OP m
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by kzhahou 12y ago
No doubt health insurance is hard problem, but it's not technically hard . OP asked for examples of company's pushing the limits of advanced technology, and Oscar is not one.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
> Go become a startup founder yourself. The issue isn't me. And, I might already be a founder. That's besides the point. I'm happy for your friend. That's excellent, to be able to negotiate well. Most people don&#
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Thanks for the link. > The founders should end up with about 50% of the company, total. Each of the next five layers should end up with about 10% of the company, split equally among everyone in the layer. This is the typical, and exploi
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by kzhahou 12y ago
An early stage startup will typically have the great majority of ownership in the hands of investors and 2-3 founders, with maybe 10% allocated to engineers at 1% max for any individual engineer. Do you see this ever changing where enginee
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by kzhahou 12y ago
You should have known (should have asked, they should have told you) the percent. That should not be secret, at any size company. Too bad.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
I don't find the dinner invitation to be damning in the slightest. Have you all not been around VCs? They're always having dinner, having multiple dinners in one night, flitting from one company to another, to some new prospect,
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Wanna share your equity %, the company exit size, and your final $ haul from stock?
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Every time I see someone challenging the notion that there could truly be developers who are an order of magnitude better than average (faster, fewer bugs, more maintainable code, etc), I can only conclude that either: A) The person posting
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Wow, way to miss my point. Gitlab might be better. But when the best location on the frontpage is a direct swipe at the leading competitor, to me that reads as very weak. You know who doesn't bother to take jabs at their competitors
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by kzhahou 12y ago
It makes them sound petty and actually-probably-worse. Just say you're the best git host. Don't mention your competitor. I'm going to go create an account on it now. Good luck, guys!

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