dreese

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by dreese 12y ago
First, let me say that, in just a bit, I am going to criticize. I hope it's constructive. I also hope it's helpful, because I am in the same boat with my own screenshots. And I didn't realize it until WWDC this year. In the i
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by dreese 12y ago
I think that's why it's best to know the percentage of the company you are being offered. Share count is meaningless without knowing total number of shares. Once you know the percentage (say 0.1%), you can figure out some other st
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by dreese 12y ago
I'm going to have to watch that movie. I've actually seen that happen and could never figure out why.
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by dreese 12y ago
I am also in the 'worked for a number of startups, been paid out non-life changing amounts more than once, and have never tried being a founder' category. What I meant to say is that founders take more risk and get more equity tha
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by dreese 12y ago
Perhaps. I was younger then and didn't feel comfortable negotiating. I'm better at it now. He even had to explain to me how options worked. But I learned a lot from working with him and met people that I still keep in contact with
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by dreese 12y ago
My original point was that ignoring equity when evaluating a job offer isn't the best approach. Most job offers don't include two options to choose from. Since I did have that choice, I evaluated my options exactly as you mention:
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by dreese 12y ago
Telling you total outstanding number of shares is required before you can have any idea what level of equity you are receiving. If they can't tell you that, then you have one problem. If they won't tell you, then you have anot
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by dreese 12y ago
'Seriously, the difference between "last founder" and "first employee" is so huge that people who can derive their day to day motivation from equity should be founders.' I think this is spot-on.
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by dreese 12y ago
I don't think it negates my point. It's just that I don't follow my own advice perfectly. :) It's also a little similar to how founders essentially work for free in exchange for lots of ownership. If, as an employee, I c
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by dreese 12y ago
I think about startup employee equity like this: Salary = compensation for doing the job Equity = compensation for taking the risk of working at a company with a high chance of failure Therefore, in the future, an employee with lots of equi
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by dreese 13y ago
Yes. Especially when someone else mistyped their email address, you did not ask for confirmation, and now I get endless emails without the ability to sign out. So I just mark everything as spam, which I know isn't what you were hoping
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by dreese 13y ago
In my case, I had 30-100 clients taking turns trying to transfer a those files across the network. The difference in total time to complete was often measured in hours.
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by dreese 13y ago
No, though I do think a synchronous API is easier to work with. It isn't synchronicity that is slower. There are lots of socket-level options and buffer allocation options that need to be set up right for raw data transfer to go quickl
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Fast, synchronous Objective-C wrapper around BSD sockets for iOS and OS X(github.com)
1 points by dreese 13y ago|3 comments
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by dreese 14y ago
I really liked this article. More generally, I think deliberately choosing to do the "hard" things first (whatever that means to you as an individual) has served me well in life. I wish I did it more often. At a former company, in a large g