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by shamino 8y ago
This is what I learned from Dale Carnegie, which seems to help. Imagine the very worst thing that can possibly happen, and try to imagine your life with that reality. See that it's not actually so bad. Then, do everything you can to pr
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by shamino 8y ago
I'm not disagreeing that one should become a founder if they don't like the early employee packages. I'm saying we should make early employee packages suck less.
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by shamino 8y ago
Good point. Let's say you do have that experience or skill in building a sea-worthy ship. Let's say you are more valuable than your founder given where the company currently is. Maybe the company is in the growth stage, and your s
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by shamino 8y ago
True, but you don't have anything a big company doesn't have, or can't have. Therefore, to differentiate yourself from your talent going to FAANG, you need to provide more equity to early employees than what is the status quo
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by shamino 8y ago
I mean, just look at the tagline on the website being advertised by OP: https://www.workatastartup.com "Join the next Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, Stripe, or Instacart". Reminds me of Ben Affleck in Boiler Room.
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by shamino 8y ago
The point is that startups are not competitive in recruiting good talent, and they go to the large companies.
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by shamino 8y ago
My issue is that just because something was hard before you came, but you're just as talented, why do they get 10x in compensation ? It's kind of like saying because Steph Curry came to the Warriors 3 years before when they weren&
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by shamino 8y ago
Thanks for the interesting discussion. The only reason why I'm still advocating more equity for early employees is because founders get so much of it. So if an exit were to happen, which could make the founders very rich, the early emp
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by shamino 8y ago
At the end of the day, when your company gets sold, and your founder worked on the company for 1-2 years before you did, but they walk away with millions and you walk away with the equivalent of a Camry - I question whether equity is not th
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by shamino 8y ago
I'm happy you say this, and I wish it was more well known, even if obvious. People join early-stage startups for the potential bucks. I'm not saying that's a good reason, but I'm saying most graduates, who are not as edu
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by shamino 8y ago
I see your point, and I agree. I'd also say that even though people are "deeper" at larger places, there are so many different "deep" people that you tend to get "wide" if you need to. Just ask a different
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by shamino 8y ago
The problem is that since we are drawn to startups, we tend to read material about startup by startups. And startups would never say joining one is bad, since they need employees. And they would never make it easily known that founders get
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by shamino 8y ago
Opportunity cost being the main one, and living uncomfortably. Benefits were not that great. Resources were small, which limited potential for expert help.
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by shamino 8y ago
This. I joined a moderately successful startup (good acquisition where founders made > $1 m) and the rewards were not worth the risks as an early employee. Also, the RSUs are low risk, high rewards at the "usual suspects". Unle
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by shamino 8y ago
It can be. Now they can start advertising on WhatsApp and begin to release that revenue giant.
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by shamino 8y ago
Do I think it's noble that Koum is leaving because of his convictions? Yes. Do I think this is a good sign for Facebook's stock? Yes.
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by shamino 8y ago
It's like going to lunch with a group of people. If it's just you, you can go wherever you like. Once it's with your partner, you have to take their interested into account. Have you tried planning a lunch for 5 or more peopl
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by shamino 9y ago
Before anyone says Facebook's testimony is just fluff, we're a business that relies on Facebook's API to monitor activity, and we've been severely impacted. We no longer can get data as before - it's having a large
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by shamino 9y ago
Hahaha agreed. I've never stock picked before, and I just loaded up on some nice FB stock at a discount :)
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by shamino 9y ago
IE may be bad, but IE is not a stock symbol. MSFT is, and I wouldn't have mind buy MSFT when IE was going down. :)
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by shamino 9y ago
"The issue is that violence is a poor metric for progress." Just to echo the commenter, I don't think Pinker is stating that humans are progressing in general - he is just stating that violence is decreasing. I also agree thi
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by shamino 9y ago
I invite everyone on this thread to read "The Wealthy Renter" by Alex Avery. Also, no, the primary reason is not so you can relocate. Buying a home could be a very bad financial decision for most people, who don't realize it
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by shamino 9y ago
For instance, all your reference links are to yourselves. Are there no data points outside your own findings that could be useful ?
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by shamino 9y ago
I agree you are trying to do that with this post. But YC startup information sometimes markets itself as knowing what others don't know when it comes to growing a business, and say they know best since they've seen so many startup
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by shamino 9y ago
For people just coming out of college, the advice given by YC might seem very "groundbreaking". But honestly, these are not new ideas. I listened to Sam's lectures at Stanford, and listened to Brian Tracy's business book
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by shamino 9y ago
More importantly, we should be vigilantly suspicious anytime an article says something about breaking a fundamental limit of physics.
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Burt Malkiel, once against “smart beta”, is finally embracing it
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by shamino 10y ago
20 years is a short time for unification theories. How long in the existence of humans did it take to unify electricity and magnetism ? ;) By the way, I'm happy people are still searching, just in case...
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by shamino 10y ago
Best book on Algorithms I know of. Extremely pedagogical and clear explanations!
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by shamino 10y ago
I was about to comment about this topic, but you said everything I wanted to! Have an up vote!

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