richiezc

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by richiezc 6y ago
vancouver?
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by richiezc 6y ago
Strike price in 2011 post series B and after splits is $0.30. At the time I think the nominal price was like $2-4 a share, I'd have to go back and look. Re: 2009. I recall an early employee saying YC told them not to hire anybody, but
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Why Airbnb is the most valuable private company in America(businessinsider.com)
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ByteDance Tells U.S. It Won’t Sell TikTok’s Algorithm(bloomberg.com)
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by richiezc 6y ago
from friends who have sold its more in the 15% commission range, there's also a fair amount of tax and legal headaches. - replying to myself since there's a max threading depth on HN?
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by richiezc 6y ago
b/c you can sell them at that point, the shares today are illiquid and they'd probably have to do something like a prepaid variable forward to be able to afford to exercise and pay tax (~23% of FMV - strike price) we're talki
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by richiezc 6y ago
sure, but how are they going to pay the AMT tax on that? options from 10 years ago are in the $0.XX range and 409a FMV today even after the drop is like $58
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by richiezc 8y ago
That's not a microsoft decision per se, my friend who was previously SEO PM at LinkedIn made this change to increase signups.
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by richiezc 9y ago
i assume you mean 4k60? the yi 4k+ also does that but no it isn't waterproof by itself, however you can see the hero 6 got a $100 price cut because of the stiff competition
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Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO(bloomberg.com)
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Airbnb gives in to San Francisco’s registration demands(theverge.com)
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by richiezc 10y ago
That is great. Random anecdote from the sort of early days (2008 or 2009): We had hit some membership milestone and Dan Nye who had taken over from Reid as CEO said something like: "Who's the Monster now?" This clip was actua
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Airbnb common stock secondary sale $25B+(businessinsider.com)
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by richiezc 11y ago
Not limited to firefighters, Palo Alto is considering housing subsidies for families making between 150-250K: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/22/250k-per-year-sa...
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Palo Alto considers subsidized housing for families making under $250K(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
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Tony Fadell’s Struggle to Build Nest(theinformation.com)
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Ex FB Growth Team VC says he'll shut down firm to help Bloomberg win presidency(businessinsider.com)
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by richiezc 11y ago
This money is going back into the option pool which is used for new grants, its not going directly to the currently employees. With a 15.7B mkt cap the 14MM represents ~8.9bps, I haven't kept up with his ownership but I remember lookin
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by richiezc 11y ago
2) Agree, this is likely the case 3) From the article: "Airbnb generates revenue by taking a 3% cut of each booking along with a 6% to 12% service fee from guests. Based on the third-quarter numbers, it appears the company is collectin
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Jack Dorsey giving up 30% of his stake in Square to help underserved communities(venturebeat.com)
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TSMC chips can get 2.5hrs extra compared to Samsung on iPhone 6S Plus(reddit.com)
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by richiezc 12y ago
I recently purchased a 991 911 Carrera S and previously owned a 987 Boxster that I tracked. I actually did cross shop the cars and had a deposit down on the Model S before it was even released. Ended up not getting the Model S b/c its
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by richiezc 13y ago
This article is factually incorrect. If you pay for a Job Seeker Subscription you show up at the top of the list of APPLICANTS for a job, it does not influence the search result rankings when a recruiter is searching LinkedIn. I think some
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by richiezc 14y ago
My friends startup was acquired by LinkedIn, 2 year vesting period that is heavily backloaded.
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by richiezc 14y ago
fvck me too, clearly they could implement a lottery system but then they wouldn't get all the press: "google i/o sells out again in record time - site mostly doesn't crash this year!"
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by richiezc 14y ago
This is really strange, at the factory test drive last year I spoke with the head of engineering on the Model S and he said the battery backs for 60 and 85kWh were the same size but with different formulations. Only the 40kWh was supposed t
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by richiezc 14y ago
Seems reasonable. Flight hacks and getting the most out of my frequent flyer miles is somewhat of a hobby of mine, I'd bet there is a high correlation between flightfox experts and people on flyertalk.com
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by richiezc 14y ago
Interesting, may I ask how much did you pay out as the finders fee? I see lots of promise in these types of crowd sourced activities and I'd like to compare the cost to self described "experts" who do this type of trip planning as a side bu
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by richiezc 14y ago
I'm the growth person who spec'd this flow There is no select all/message all option in our picker. Each contact must be explicitly selected
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by richiezc 14y ago
http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/05/24/all-revenue-is-not-creat... see: (1) network effects (2) organic demand

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