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by mtlynch 2y ago
No, nobody's ever really reached out about consulting/speaking. I haven't pursued it either, as I prefer to have products rather than making money from one-off jobs.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks! It's been really fun. Of course, challenging at times, but overall I'm really glad I've had this time off to enjoy with my family.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks for reading! No, the only place where I was personally on the hook was credit cards, but that was fine because I just paid the balance and closed the accounts. I maybe had to give a personal guarantee to rent our office, but it was $
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks for reading! > Now that you've been through this process, how would you go about finding a buyer yourself? It would have been tough to find a buyer. Before I met Quiet Light, I was worried a broker wouldn't take me, and
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Re-posting from a similar answer I gave in another thread: Yep, still happy with the decision. A lot of my comp at Google was stock, so I would have made a lot from the stock price movement over the last six years, and I'm a bit enviou
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Right now, I just have one business that makes money. It's an ingredient parsing API that I wrote in 2018.[0] It was not a good idea, but it still makes $100-200/mo without me doing anything. Until a few months ago, I also had a w
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. Happy to answer take any feedback and answer any questions about this post.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks, Zeke! > I was surprised you didn't touch on taxes. In the past, the main thing that kept me from selling any business was taxes -- I'd make more if I just kept it running over n years in maintenance mode. After all is s
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Yep, still happy with the decision. A lot of my comp at Google was stock, so I would have made a lot from the stock price movement over the last six years, and I'm a bit envious of that, but still yes. I do still love the independence
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. Happy to answer take any feedback and answer any questions about this post.
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Lessons from My First Exit(mtlynch.io)
13 points by mtlynch 2y ago|7 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I looked harder at the code to figure out how you're using devenv without a devenv.nix file. I now see that you're using devenv from within your flake.nix, which I didn't realize you could do.[0] Neat! I'm going to give
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by mtlynch 2y ago
What's your experience been like with Nix? How do you feel about devenv vs stock Nix? How are you getting devenv to work, as I don't see a devenv.nix file. I'm still a Nix beginner and would like to find ways of integrating i
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks, Justine! I'm a big fan of your work. I actually sold the company earlier this year.[0] I never looked into VC money primarily because I like the independence of being the sole owner, though I agree there would have been a lot o
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Sudden death and cerebral hemorrhage seem hard to declare as unrelated to the medication they took.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Ah, thanks! I tried converting that example to Zig: https://tars.run/t3eInpPFAgc Is that the idea? You can do the same thing wrapping integers with structs, but enum makes it slightly more concise?
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I was 32 and single, so I had a lot of freedom to take the risk at that point. I don't want to say my exact net worth at the time, but I earmarked $400k to last me five years of trying to make it on my own. $400k was kind of extreme be
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I think this is the post parent is referencing: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2024/#2024-11-04 It seems like an interesting idea, but I wish Andrew spent more time fleshing it out with complete examples. I can't
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Yeah, I found a mentor at the beginning of year 4, and they were very helpful. There were a lot of things happening on my team that I didn't understand, and my mentor was able to recognize them as political patterns that were somewhat
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Yeah, I agree financial ROI is definitely higher in a FAANG, especially the last five years. I'm still glad that I left when I did, as I value autonomy a lot, so being able to choose what to do every day is worth a lot to me.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Haha, maybe if one of my companies does really well, I'll be able to buy a mountain and name it after me. Thanks so much! That's really nice to hear.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Context for others: steelframe and I were teammates at Microsoft in the late 2000s.[0] Hey steelframe! Good to see you here again! This is good advice and something I wish I'd recognized earlier at Google. For the first few years there
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here! > I am sure if he looks back and reflects again, he will admit that the success of a startup relay on 100+ other factors that out of your control. It is never a wasting time in your life. You learned how the world works! Af
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks! No, the fuzz testing is just for fun and probably not anything serious, although it would be fun to find a fuzzing target that has a good bug bounty program. My wife and I just had our first child, so I'm mainly focusing on fam
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Hi Mish! Great meeting you as well and cool to run into you again here!
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Hi, I'm "the guy." Thanks for reading! I largely agree with you. I didn't mean to argue that the work I was doing for the first two years merited a promotion. My point was more that I felt frustrated that I was doing wha
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. Cool to see this pop up again! Happy to answer any questions about this post.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I'm learning about fuzzing too, and I just wrote a tutorial about what I learned so far.[0] The issue I found with a lot of fuzzing tutorials is that they're difficult to reproduce because there's a lot of work in setting up
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Using Nix to Fuzz Test a PDF Parser(mtlynch.io)
1 points by mtlynch 2y ago|0 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
> Not to mention they paid for my GC. What does GC mean in this context?

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