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by martinshen 10y ago
Interested. Can you shoot me an intro at Martin@smartcar.com ?
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by martinshen 10y ago
Interview process is a phone call, take-home project and then a 2-3 hour on-site interview with all staff.
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by martinshen 10y ago
This is a common misinterpretation of who pays for roads. Effectively roads are paid for by gas tax. Gas used to be a great proxy for how many miles you drive and where you drive those miles. Now, freight and commercial trucks are effective
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by martinshen 10y ago
The US already has a fairly aggressive inheritance tax. It's pretty much 40% after the first $5.4M. The US has the 4th highest inheritance tax in the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_
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by martinshen 10y ago
Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend | Mountain View | Onsite I'm an early employee at Smartcar. I joined in the fall last year after parting ways with a $3M VC-backed startup I cofounded 5 years ago. When I was job hunting, I was specific
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Ask HN: Options question about FMV and 83(b)
2 points by martinshen 10y ago|0 comments
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by martinshen 10y ago
Smartcar | Backend Engineer | SF & Mountain View | Onsite I'm an early employee at Smartcar. When I was job hunting back in the October, I looked at early stage startups in interesting spaces like eSports, VR, insurance, automotive
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by martinshen 10y ago
I have a very difficult time understanding how Twilio can justify such a high flying IPO ($1B+ mkt cap). This is a classic business (Enterprise PBX and Services) with lipstick on it. Look at Polycom, Mitel and Alcatel-Lucent as their comps
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by martinshen 10y ago
Smartcar | Backend Engineer | SF & Mountain View | Onsite I'm an early employee at Smartcar. When I was job hunting back in the October, I looked at early stage startups in interesting spaces like eSports, VR, insurance, automotive
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by martinshen 10y ago
Smartcar | SF Bay | Full-time | Backend Full Stack Developer Posted this last month and got a lot of great response so I figure it was due for an update... I joined Smartcar to head up business development at Smartcar. Previously, I founded
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Ask HN: Where's Who's Hiring for May 2016?
2 points by martinshen 10y ago|3 comments
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by martinshen 11y ago
Smartcar | SF Bay | Full-time | Backend Full Stack Developer I joined Smartcar a few months ago as Head of BD. When I was looking for my next job, I thought of industries that were going to be very interesting in the next 5 years: VR, insur
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by martinshen 11y ago
Just tried to sign up but apparently my route isn't ready yet.
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by martinshen 11y ago
Any idea if commuter benefits are eligible for this? If so, this sounds better than my Caltrain ride.
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Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source(reuters.com)
210 points by martinshen 11y ago|205 comments
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by martinshen 11y ago
This is one of many problems that disincentivizes construction projects. To build a new condo in San Francisco is rarely profitable: 1) Unlike other cities, when your building plan fits all criteria, it is not effectively automatically appr
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by martinshen 11y ago
The most visible homeless and those we consider "the problem" certainly may be those who "cannot take care of themselves". However, the majority do not fit this category. I may be naive but I think we should be tackling
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by martinshen 11y ago
Housing and the homeless topics keep coming up on HN and in my social circles. It's frustrating. My real frustration is in fact with our cities are incentivizing businesses to create jobs while not creating more housing supply nor usin
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by martinshen 11y ago
Personally, I've used LinkedIn for recruiting tech talent, being recruited and most recently, doing biz dev (aka sales). Stray observations: 1. LinkedIn has too many products like sales navigator that attempt to force you through a spe
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by martinshen 11y ago
You're missing out on $25K post-tax dollars per year by working at this company (assuming US taxes in CA or NYC and 80K "real" base) You plan to stay there 4 years and in that time if all goes well, you hope the company to ex
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Urban Engines runs advanced simulations on SF's transit system(theverge.com)
2 points by martinshen 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: 60-70% of our Stripe charges are failing. Help
2 points by martinshen 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How many Canadians live in the SFBay area?
2 points by martinshen 11y ago|2 comments
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by martinshen 11y ago
I run an event startup called UpOut (haha get up and go out) A lot of new startups ask me about their events discovery startup so I thought I'd chime in. Read the Riotvine and Plancast post mortems before you commit any more time. If y
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by martinshen 11y ago
I'm the co-founder of UpOut and even I think this article is not super relevant for HN.
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by martinshen 11y ago
We have a pretty similar product called UpOut Insiders. Big differences: > $20 per month > 2 tickets to 2 events per month (4 tickets) > Not just concerts. 250+ events in SF/NYC including comedy shows, plays, wine tastings etc
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by martinshen 12y ago
I think it's simply amazing what they built with a very limited amount of funding ($3.6M announced). Looking at there fundraising efforts, it looks like they never managed to get to a Series A. I wonder why?
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by martinshen 12y ago
I use meditation to deepen good thought "rivers". The way I see my mind is... something happens and triggers a thought which goes down the deepest "river". For example, I hear some bad news at work; my mind processes thi
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Ask HN: How to negotiate/reduce legal fees with big legal
1 points by martinshen 12y ago|0 comments
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by martinshen 12y ago
UpOut - SoMA, San Francisco - Full Time Python and PHP Would love to chat and see if there's a good fit. Email at Martin@UpOut.com or call my cell at 415 404 5650 (don't call me after 8pm PST please). UpOut helps people get out mo

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