martinshen

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CEO at Passenger AI

Previously at Volkswagen Connected Car, Smartcar and founded UpOut.

Toronto, SF, Detroit martin@passenger.ai

  1. Our company has acquired 15+ smaller entities that all have different service desk providers (e.g. ServiceNow, Zendesk, Jira, Freshservice), 2 CRMs (HubSpot and Salesforce) and different knowledge base tools etc. We are…

  2. Hello, I have a significant number of NSO (early exercise) options at a seed-funded startup. The company is doing very well and as such, I'm planning to early exercise and file a form 83(b) election to reduce my tax…

  3. It's normally up by now.

  4. We have a lot of unique payment failures on Stripe for a subscription product. We've put measures up to try to reduce these issues including rejecting prepaid credit cards and doing a $1 authorization charge for our…

  5. I'm from Toronto and at least once per day I seem to meet a Canadian. I've heard a rumor that there's something over 400,000 Canadians which would make it the 13th largest metro area by Canadian population.

  6. We use Gunderson which is a big named law firm in Silicon Valley. We've raised some capital but we find their legal fees are getting outrageous. We blew past their $20K of deferred fees quickly and now are getting…

  7. We operate a subscription service similar to Birchbox, Craft Coffee, Naturebox etc. for events. Would we be allowed to collect credit cards in our app.

  8. To date we've used either markdown or HTML. We need to transition to something more user friendly for our merchants. Suggested WYSIWIG? I've had issues in the past with WYSIWIGs producing poor quality or even confusing…

  9. TLDR; We don't like doing full remote. We prefer one office of devs but are thinking about opening a second office to more easily bring on developers. I run a local focused startup called UpOut. We run a local…

  10. I'd love to (and pay for) an API that I could plug into my admin panels to figure out a little context about my customers.<p>For example: it'd be great to know where they went to school, where they work and have links…

  11. A lot of HN is libertarian and I would assume that many would see no problem with doing a marijuana focused startup. Considering how much opportunity there is in this space, I'd expect to see a lot more companies…

  12. I love BoostedBoards and have personally ridden one. However, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a motorized scooter (kick scooter) similar to Xootr except with a lighter motor.