robhunter

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by robhunter 7y ago
Most (80%, nobody knows how many) "sperm donor kids" don't know they were conceived that way. It's often a family secret and many parents were advised by doctors never to tell.
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by robhunter 7y ago
Are you a member of We Are Donor Conceived on FB?
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by robhunter 7y ago
There is a significant time value of money effect at play here - better to get the tax advantages from writing the investment off in Year 5 than getting paid back in Year 12
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by robhunter 7y ago
Likely not - venture capital investments have at least 1x liquidation preferences. The founders likely got nothing.
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by robhunter 7y ago
Nothing - we started the company in 2014 and began using Slack. Were much closer to ~$200/year when we started.
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by robhunter 7y ago
Well, just like there are objective levels of depreciation for certain classes of assets (property vs. equipment), perhaps there could be similar levels of depreciation allowable for sales & marketing costs based on historic customer ch
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by robhunter 7y ago
Obviously, but do you see that anywhere in their S-1? Or in all of the comments on here referencing that they are unprofitable?
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by robhunter 7y ago
Well, I think it relates to historical churn though - B2C churn in general is significantly higher than B2B (see Blue Apron). The switching costs on detergent brands are essentially 0. For us to switch from Slack now would be a fairly maj
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by robhunter 7y ago
I think a lot of it is historically tied to taxation. By not depreciating sales and marketing, Slack can claim all of that expense upfront, and delay tax payments since they show a greater loss.
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by robhunter 7y ago
I think historical accounting practices and standards are not great at evaluating SaaS businesses. We came up with the concept of depreciation/amortization as a way to better match up expenses with revenues in a given time frame. I thi
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by robhunter 7y ago
Also, I did ask for feedback on your suggestion from the community - would be happy to share that with you (even an anonymous email address or something). Hearing from actual adults that could be similar to your hypothetical sperm-progeny
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by robhunter 7y ago
Here is one good resource: https://www.wearedonorconceived.com/
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by robhunter 7y ago
We can probably do this forever :) It's clear you've done a lot of secondary research. I am, too, very familiar with the situation in Canada and have done a lot of advocacy work here. I would suggest that the standards are not q
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by robhunter 7y ago
It's less anger and frustration about my own situation, and more about the lived experiences of hundreds of people I've engaged with and learned from over the years. tl;dr based on all of their collective experience - please, plea
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by robhunter 7y ago
Claiming that people donate anonymously because they are concerned about claims to their estate is, IMO, pretty ridiculous. There have been millions of sperm donations done through fertility clinics and not one documented case of any offsp
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by robhunter 7y ago
They're more related than it might immediately appear - purposefully choosing an anonymous donor over an open ID donor is often correlated with shame and secrecy around infertility, whereas choosing an open ID donor signifies acceptanc
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by robhunter 7y ago
The very first "type" of parent listed in the Wikipedia article you're citing are biological parents.
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by robhunter 7y ago
> Parents are the people who raise you and are legally responsible for you. That's your definition. It's not everyone's. > If the offspring feels some sort of anguish over this, that's a self-inflicted harm. So yo
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by robhunter 7y ago
Thank goodness for that. People who donate sperm but are unwilling to have any contact with the human beings they create should not be donating sperm.
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"the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents."
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by robhunter 7y ago
I am personally in contact with hundreds of people who have made powerful familial connections and relationships with genetic relatives as a direct result of commercial DNA testing.
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by robhunter 7y ago
Article 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child asserts that everyone has a right to know their genetic origin. Intentionally depriving someone of that right through anonymous donation is unethical. On a broader level, I
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by robhunter 7y ago
That's my point - providing the biological material and nothing more is inherently unethical. I would encourage you to look at some of the research - 70%+ of "anonymous" sperm donors are actually open to contact with their ge
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by robhunter 7y ago
Anonymity created many, many risks. There are documented cases of genetic half-siblings having a sexual relationship because they did not know they were donor conceived. There are documented cases of suicides from adults finding out they we
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by robhunter 7y ago
The word "donate" inherently implies an element of altruism. What kind of "indeterminate risk" are you referring to? The risk that a biological son or daughter gets in touch? If a donor is not open to that, they should
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by robhunter 7y ago
I think this is a very positive outcome for all involved. It seems like you would not be open to contact with your hypothetical offspring. I can't tell you how many adults I've met that have attempted to reach out to their genetic
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by robhunter 7y ago
No, absolutely not - there have been hundreds of thousands of people conceived this way and not one documented case of child support when an actual fertility clinic has been used to conceive.
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by robhunter 7y ago
"8. Anonymous sperm and egg donors could become a thing of the past." As someone conceived with donor gametes who used Ancestry/23andme to find and build a relationship with my biological father - this is a WONDERFUL thing. D
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by robhunter 8y ago
I think the whole point of basic income is to help people that can't afford what you are proposing.
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by robhunter 8y ago
Elliot, are you part of "We are Donor Conceived" on Facebook? There is a group of 1,000+ people on there that I think could really benefit from your perspective.

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