sultanofswing

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by sultanofswing 2y ago
Yeah and this is where I honestly don't understand (and am suspicious of) the VC firm's take on this. My cofounder is happy with this, I'm happy with this. We have tiebreaking and vesting built into the equation so there&#x27
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by sultanofswing 2y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. I really don't see any rational basis for this, and it feels like a huge waste of emotional energy. I guess it would be good to know: What is the good faith argument for detractors in this case? (assuming that in
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by sultanofswing 2y ago
I wasn't asked to meet repeatedly. The first time this was brought up it was squashed by my CEO without me being present. This time (during our seed round) it was brought up and my cofounder thought it might make sense for me to get fa
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Ask HN: VC Firm suggesting my cofounder should get more equity in next round?
4 points by sultanofswing 2y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: Venture Studio Model vs. Y Combinator
1 points by sultanofswing 4y ago|0 comments
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by sultanofswing 6y ago
When you have a 'bully pulpit' as powerful and far reaching as Facebook now provides to the president then it is totally reasonable to want to hold them accountable (given you disagree with their stance). I don't exactly unde
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by sultanofswing 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, what keeps you from speaking out (besides a strong feeling of group think). Have you actually experienced firings / ostracism from people at the company? While I do feel like your points would be contrarian (and
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by sultanofswing 6y ago
So at worst we have someone who is intentionally inciting violence. At best we have a leader of our country too irresponsible to do due diligence on his own posts to the entire free world. He has literally infinite resources at his disposal
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by sultanofswing 6y ago
I want to clarify that this is in NO way verifiable. There were 0 company polls taken about this on a grand scale. Most vocal position so far has been large scale dissatisfaction with this decision. But no way to actually know if that is ju
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by sultanofswing 6y ago
The software industry's greatest blog post sin: "Hiring in tech is broken" This topic is trite. Furthermore no one seems to be able to offer up actual tangible suggestions as to how to fix this, or some objective 'better
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by sultanofswing 7y ago
Not looking for a job, but I absolutely love Notion! Keep up the awesome work.
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by sultanofswing 7y ago
Will be interesting to hear her perspective, but like an above poster mentioned it doesn't amount to much. Couple that with the fact that athletes notoriously buy into 'woo' treatments (not to mention Joe Rogan himself is not
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by sultanofswing 8y ago
While the terms are interchangeable I would focus your efforts on becoming a Software Engineer (with a specialization in Front End). I say this in an era of bootcamp grads, online micro degrees Udemy courses etc. where you can now study and
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by sultanofswing 8y ago
But you've sort of hit the nail on the head right there. Apple Store employees are likely employees because Apple Stores are a major part of Apple's business. Apple hires hoards of contractors for all sorts of roles internally (ex
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by sultanofswing 8y ago
I have mixed feelings about this as someone who has worked as a contractor at a FAANG company. On the one hand, many of the complaints are absolutely correct. Where I worked contractors were: - Second class citizens - Often worked on teams
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by sultanofswing 8y ago
This seems like a reach, especially considering I don't personally believe the latter point you're making about IQ tests being neutral. I'm not an expert on psychometrics, I think all I'm trying to point out is that Feyn
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by sultanofswing 8y ago
Usage of Feynman's official IQ score as some sort of 'proof' of anything is often overused. I don't have the exact citation but it is fairly well documented that he scored well on other very challenging tests that correl