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Show HN: Free weekly email of 20 vetted software engineers that you can hire(laskie.com)
21 points by gatsby 4y ago|2 comments
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by gatsby 5y ago
Really great idea - excited to try this out!
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by gatsby 6y ago
Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015. Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co
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Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years(laskie.co)
168 points by gatsby 6y ago|44 comments
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by gatsby 6y ago
I just did a short thread on how we went from $0 -> $2m ARR with founder-led B2B sales. https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1309197276061945857 There was a lot of interest, so I wrote a longer-form version t
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How to keep everyone moving in the same direction(laskie.substack.com)
1 points by gatsby 6y ago|0 comments
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Cuban Medical Internationalism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by gatsby 6y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 7y ago
Thanks for the context. "Management was basically incredibly incompetent, for a long time, and were so unfair to employees at the company that they felt this was the only option" Why not just quit and get a new role? I don't
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Don Valentine has died(sequoiacap.com)
284 points by gatsby 7y ago|26 comments
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WeWork’s Startup Party Ends with Some 2k Jobs Set to Be Cut(bloomberg.com)
3 points by gatsby 7y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 7y ago
Gmail is 15 years old. Maps is ~15 years old (and was the combination of several acquisitions in the maps space: Keyhole, Where2, Zipdash, etc.) Chrome is 11 years old + extremely successful, but my point still stands.
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by gatsby 7y ago
Almost every successful Google product over the last 15 years has been the result of acquiring an already-built product and marketing + distributing it well: Youtube, Nest, Waze, Doubleclick, Android. Products that are organically created w
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Uber falls 12% after reporting disappointing quarterly results(cnbc.com)
2 points by gatsby 7y ago|0 comments
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Fiverr IPO F-1(sec.gov)
2 points by gatsby 7y ago|1 comments
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by gatsby 7y ago
We were fortunate to have Geoff as one of our YC group partners in S2015 and he asked tough questions and kept us focused more so than almost any other early investor we had. Looking back, Geoff really helped us maximize our full potential
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Paris Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by gatsby 7y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 7y ago
The SAC vest story is fascinating. Have a source on that?
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by gatsby 7y ago
No, they have a massive sales team, they just call them "customer advocates" or "Ecosystem Account Manager" or "Product Advocate" https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/all-jobs?tea
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by gatsby 8y ago
Must be, right? Typically long-term single family PM fees are 8-12% and multifamily is 6-9%.
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by gatsby 8y ago
Fair point - updated my original comment to remove the expansion of the "bay area."
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by gatsby 8y ago
Perfectly said. In the 80s and 90s, the "center" of SV was Mountain View and surrounding cities, with the VCs mostly in Menlo/Palo Also. In the last 10 years, as companies have decided to increasingly be based out of SF, the
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by gatsby 8y ago
What's your point? People are moving to Oakland, and it's a lot easier to commute from Oakland to SF than from Oakland to Palo Alto or Menlo.
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Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men(nytimes.com)
614 points by gatsby 8y ago|591 comments
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by gatsby 8y ago
I signed up for HN eight years ago yesterday. Back then, I was working at a mind-numbing job in private equity and hating every minute of it. HN encouraged me to move to SF, learn new skills, join a startup (where I met my wife), which led
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by gatsby 8y ago
This seems bitter and certainly exaggerated. For one, the three companies that you listed have almost 1m employees and clearly not all of them are naive or scumbags. Serious question: what did you decide to do instead of working at a startu
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by gatsby 8y ago
Huh?
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by gatsby 8y ago
Investors frequently say things like this: “Am I at, or can I get to, profitability on the money I have?...(If so) Go raise “opportunistic money” from your existing investors at a good or great price.” If you’re profitable and believe that
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by gatsby 8y ago
What has he done wrong in your opinion? I think my point is that if lots of money is being made, someone is going to have to spend it. You may disagree with how it is spent by Bezos, etc. but I can’t imagine capping net worth so that gover
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by gatsby 8y ago
Why? You sincerely think the world would be any better off if governments managed hundreds of billions more?
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by gatsby 8y ago
I’m a YC founder from the S15 batch and worked as an early employee at another company from W12. Happy to review your application or answer any questions from a founder perspective. Email is in profile.

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