richardFINEman

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   by richardFINEman 6y ago

   Employees don't know share or exit price yet. Won't be announced for a few more months. However, if the OP is speaking the truth about the timeframe he got shares from, he is guaranteed to be up. There are definitely people who lo
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   by richardFINEman 6y ago

   Richard, I appreciate your theoretical arguments. Consider me the applied physicist who has actually seen the data. :) On the valuation. Optimizely's pre-exit valuation rose in every VC round since changing the focus of the business fr
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   by richardFINEman 6y ago

   Optimizely switched to a Frequentist statistics model in 2015, which changed how pretty much all testing companies do stats. Your article was valid, for a full year.
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   by richardFINEman 6y ago

   Optimize is not an incumbent but a challenger. Google Optimize came out years after Optimizely and is less featured and built by a smaller team. The main benefit to Optimize is that it's cheap.
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   by richardFINEman 6y ago

   If the OP is telling the truth, there is no way he lost money on the stock he bought. The early shares are all up.
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   by richardFINEman 6y ago

   I worked at Optimizely for 4 years and can tell you that pivoting to Enterprise has been one of the best company decisions. One of the important distinctions between Optimizely and most developer-first platforms is that experimentation is a