This resonates a lot with how I felt while building our company. My kids were born during the early days of our startup and it was pretty much what he described- work and being a dad. Thankfully the startup was pretty…
I can’t use them as well.
As a 90s Indian cricket fan, this was exactly my thought :-)
Kudos to your parents. I was fortunate that even while growing up in India, my parents never told me my caste and never filled it out in any school forms. If they teachers pushed for it, my parents would tell me to…
This is not fully accurate. You have to pay AMT on the difference between your strike price and the current 409a price of common. It doesn't have much to do with where preferred is valued, other than the fact that a…
Wow, that is cool to hear. We used to get the British coverage, so grew up with Murray Walker.
In general this is good advice. However I would advice against depending too much on VCs. They don’t really get it right a lot of the time. At the end of the day it is the caliber of the team, the sales/customer…
Ha - I think you might be thinking about 2009-2011 or so. That was the Google+ effort (under VicG) and thinking that games (like it did with Facebook) would be a key driver of growth. I think this was also around the…
I don’t understand the MBA hate here. The WhatsApp founders don’t have MBAs and sold their company to Facebook for 19 billion. They wanted to be that rich. Nothing to do with MBAs. Also let us be clear. Engineers are no…
It is kinda cool to think that Scott himself was a really young undergraduate at Cornell. I believe he was 16 when he was a freshman at Cornell and we would hear whispers of the child prodigy in the CS department. He…
I found the article very insightful. I spent the weekend reviewing Dropbox's S1 and had the same issue - they are not being completely honest about their cohort retention numbers. They have created some new…
This might be unpopular, but California is a great example of a place where taxes are high, but it is not spent well. I remember looking at this a few years back, and although the state claims that 2/3 of state tax…
This resonates a lot with how I felt while building our company. My kids were born during the early days of our startup and it was pretty much what he described- work and being a dad. Thankfully the startup was pretty…
I can’t use them as well.
As a 90s Indian cricket fan, this was exactly my thought :-)
Kudos to your parents. I was fortunate that even while growing up in India, my parents never told me my caste and never filled it out in any school forms. If they teachers pushed for it, my parents would tell me to…
This is not fully accurate. You have to pay AMT on the difference between your strike price and the current 409a price of common. It doesn't have much to do with where preferred is valued, other than the fact that a…
Wow, that is cool to hear. We used to get the British coverage, so grew up with Murray Walker.
In general this is good advice. However I would advice against depending too much on VCs. They don’t really get it right a lot of the time. At the end of the day it is the caliber of the team, the sales/customer…
Ha - I think you might be thinking about 2009-2011 or so. That was the Google+ effort (under VicG) and thinking that games (like it did with Facebook) would be a key driver of growth. I think this was also around the…
I don’t understand the MBA hate here. The WhatsApp founders don’t have MBAs and sold their company to Facebook for 19 billion. They wanted to be that rich. Nothing to do with MBAs. Also let us be clear. Engineers are no…
It is kinda cool to think that Scott himself was a really young undergraduate at Cornell. I believe he was 16 when he was a freshman at Cornell and we would hear whispers of the child prodigy in the CS department. He…
I found the article very insightful. I spent the weekend reviewing Dropbox's S1 and had the same issue - they are not being completely honest about their cohort retention numbers. They have created some new…
This might be unpopular, but California is a great example of a place where taxes are high, but it is not spent well. I remember looking at this a few years back, and although the state claims that 2/3 of state tax…