Joshua Levy jlevy

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

Sessions

Code	Title	Duration	Link
Keynote	Andy Jassy Keynote Announcement Recap	0:01	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCxKAM2GtQ
Keynote	AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote: Andy Jassy	2:22	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RrbUyw9uSg
Keynote	AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote: Werner Vogels	2:16	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDScBNahsL4
Keynote	[Tuesday Night Live with Jame

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

Ctrl-Key: ^[
Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
Hexadecimal: \x1B
Decimal: 27

	import requests
	import base64
	from tqdm import tqdm


	master_json_url = 'https://178skyfiregce-a.akamaihd.net/exp=1474107106~acl=%2F142089577%2F%2A~hmac=0d9becc441fc5385462d53bf59cf019c0184690862f49b414e9a2f1c5bafbe0d/142089577/video/426274424,426274425,426274423,426274422/master.json?base64_init=1'
	base_url = master_json_url[:master_json_url.rfind('/', 0, -26) + 1]

	resp = requests.get(master_json_url)
	content = resp.json()

	/**
	* Returns a hash code for a string.
	* (Compatible to Java's String.hashCode())
	*
	* The hash code for a string object is computed as
	* s[0]31^(n-1) + s[1]31^(n-2) + ... + s[n-1]
	* using number arithmetic, where s[i] is the i th character
	* of the given string, n is the length of the string,
	* and ^ indicates exponentiation.
	* (The hash value of the empty string is zero.)

	#!/bin/bash

	set -euo pipefail

	file1="${1:?

	Usage: $(basename $0) file1.json file2.json

	Show diff of JSON, normalizing key ordering.
	}"

	#!/bin/bash
	# Convenience script to pretty-print and browse colored JSON without remembering flags.
	# Read from files or stdin.
	jq -C . "$@" \| less -R -m