lkanies

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by lkanies 13y ago
Yep. I seriously thought about talking about that, but it's rare enough that it didn't seem worth it, and it's not a realistic option for us unless our valuation drops considerably. Even then, I would have had to sell many
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by lkanies 13y ago
Tell that to the journalists who have been asking me what my exit strategy is for the last four years, and especially since I hired a CFO. This article started as a literal response to them.
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by lkanies 13y ago
Selling the company is the best form of failure, but it is rarely the plan the board entered with, and my point is that it certainly shouldn't be. Even great exits like Nest's today; I expect Tony Fadell didn't plan to sell,
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by lkanies 13y ago
Yes, investors want their money back, but they are forbidden from doing so in an IPO, and they cannot exit for at least six months after. If, six months after the IPO, they sold all of their stock, they would most likely seriously hit the
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by lkanies 15y ago
(disclaimer - Puppet Labs employee) 2-3 months is a long time. We consistently hear 2-6 weeks to get to full production, with 30-120 minutes for some proof of concept work. And one of the great things about Puppet is you can start very smal
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by lkanies 15y ago
(disclaimer - founder of Puppet) We at Puppet Labs have always focused on building tools that anyone can use, not just the best hackers in the world. We've got some of the best sysadmins working with us, but we punish them by making them w
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by lkanies 15y ago
(disclaimer - founder of Puppet) Just to be clear, this has always been a core goal with Puppet - very low dependencies to make it easy to adopt. There are some real downsides - we have to do a lot more coding, and it can be tough to get al