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by sskates 11y ago
The crazy thing to me is: 1) the fact that employees are granted options instead of shares is an artifact of tax law, and 2) the fact that there's a 90 day exercise window is also an artifact of tax law. Yet, companies constantly come
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by sskates 11y ago
Agreed that it's mainly a function of employee number and secondarily a function of contribution. I'd much rather it be based on contribution. The trouble is that contribution is hard to tell up front but you have to be agreed on
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by sskates 11y ago
From the perspective of an employee, I completely agree this is the correct method of getting an idea of what equity is worth. I've had exactly 0 new hires ask me all those questions. Maybe 10% have asked me how many shares outstanding
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by sskates 11y ago
You make it sound so easy. Professionals at picking the right company (aka venture capitalists) get it wrong the vast majority of the time. Nobody has any guarantees about how things will end up. You really think the 90 day exercise window
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by sskates 11y ago
I hadn't seen Andrew's post before writing this but I think it's awesome. Will try this out at the next company.
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by sskates 11y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EjpQDst...
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by sskates 11y ago
People said the same thing about putting their photos on the internet in the early days and now there are massive companies dedicated to it.
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by sskates 11y ago
Sorry about all the FUD around YC's success. I'm curious where all this negative sentiment is coming from. Reminds me of this gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by sskates 11y ago
You can calculate the mean yourself by taking total valuation divided by number of companies. I'll do it for you: $65 billion / (940 companies) = $69 million / company
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by sskates 11y ago
We'll be sharing more about our query architecture in the future as well as other parts of the stack that we haven't included here. The query layer is an impressive piece of architecture that handles fast access to multiple distri
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by sskates 11y ago
There's a good amount of stuff on Google, but here's a recent convert's take: https://medium.com/@illscience/mixpanel-vs-amplitude-6b3ba36...
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by sskates 11y ago
Agreed, an email gate is something that we'll be testing a lot in the future. For now- you can go directly to amplitude.com/demo and you can get around the email gate. Hope that's helpful! Also- around the first version of gr
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by sskates 11y ago
You can get started on the free plan with more data and Microscope- which on it's own many teams have already have found to be a gamechanger. Message me at spenser@amplitude.com and we can figure out a way to make it compelling.
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by sskates 11y ago
That's awesome, glad to see Coinbase leading the charge on employee equity! We've just implemented something similar at Amplitude as well. The 90 day exercise window is one of the biggest "gotchas" of equity compensation
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by sskates 11y ago
Let me know what you're looking to do and I can see what could make sense! Send me a note at spenser@amplitude.com
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by sskates 11y ago
Here you go: https://amplitude.com/privacy We're also in the middle of a 3rd party SOC 2 audit right now.
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by sskates 11y ago
That's great to hear you're planning to use Amplitude! I'll personally guarantee that we'll never remove stuff from the current free plans- in fact we hope to add features to the free plan and increase it's volume a
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by sskates 11y ago
Sorry, that's per month, will make that more clear on the page.
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by sskates 11y ago
Really sorry about issues on Zendesk, thanks for pointing them out! We've rolled out new docs today and are still ironing out a few bugs. Any pages that aren't working for you in particular? Also- totally agreed on there being a l
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by sskates 11y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Hearing that makes me really glad that we decided to invest in making a solid API so people could roll their own dashboards.
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by sskates 11y ago
Jeffrey, you undersell yourself! (The best engineers always do...) Jeffrey's the VP of Engineering at Amplitude who built the core of our current infrastructure.
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by sskates 11y ago
Hello! Definitely miss MIT. Can't find anything on your profile, who am I talking with?
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by sskates 11y ago
One of the nice things about raising a Series A is it allows us to be more aggressive in doing things that don't have an immediate ROI- helping out people who aren't paying us is one of them. We view it as a long term marketing ex
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by sskates 11y ago
Because we have a huge infrastructure advantage, we try to structure it in a way where you don't even have to worry about data volume- as long as it's not killing us on server costs we're fine. We actually tried to make a ful
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by sskates 11y ago
Yes! Just got certified a month ago: https://amplitude.com/privacy
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by sskates 11y ago
Sorry, this is mostly anecdotal. I've seen it quite a few times myself. Many teams that have tried to track their data at full volume on mobile with existing providers end up paying more for analytics than any other piece of their stac
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by sskates 11y ago
Ok I'll bite. Going from volume based pricing to feature based pricing is standard as an ecosystem matures and the underlying "resource" becomes commoditized. We offer both more features (Microscope- it's pretty cool, pl
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by sskates 11y ago
Sorry, should be fixed now! Are you still seeing any issues?
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by sskates 11y ago
We offer Redshift and raw SQL access as an add-on to the analytics, it's not used to power the dashboards at all. We've actually developed an in house backend from scratch that's gone through ~10 or so iterations. There are 3
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by sskates 11y ago
Hi all, founder of Amplitude here. We've always felt volume based pricing to be bad for analytics culture as it discourages tracking and so are taking as aggressive of a stance as we can here. Would love HN's feedback!

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