Tom C lyjia

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

Principles of Adult Behavior

Be patient. No matter what.
Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
Expand your sense of the possible.
Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
Tolerate ambiguity.
Laugh at yourself frequently.

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# https://developers.supportbee.com/blog/setting-up-cucumber-to-run-with-Chrome-on-Linux/
	# https://gist.github.com/curtismcmullan/7be1a8c1c841a9d8db2c
	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10792403/how-do-i-get-chrome-working-with-selenium-using-php-webdriver
	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26133486/how-to-specify-binary-path-for-remote-chromedriver-in-codeception
	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40262682/how-to-run-selenium-3-x-with-chrome-driver-through-terminal
	# https://askubuntu.com/questions/760085/how-do-you-install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-16-04

	# Versions
	CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION=`curl -sS https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE`

	# Also @see https://www.viget.com/articles/protip-passing-parameters-to-your-rake-tasks for
	# examples using dependents and default values for arguments (see the updates at the end)

	# Avdi Grimm's rake tutorial is really helpful. His section on FileLists:
	# @see http://www.virtuouscode.com/2014/04/22/rake-part-2-file-lists/


	# Rails:
	# * to get access to Rails models, etc, your task must depend on the :environment task
	# ex: task :my_task => :environment do ....

	require 'openssl'

	key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(2048)
	p encrypted_string = key.public_encrypt('my plaintext string', OpenSSL::PKey::RSA::PKCS1_OAEP_PADDING)
	p decrypted_string = key.private_decrypt(encrypted_string, OpenSSL::PKey::RSA::PKCS1_OAEP_PADDING)

	# Calculate a short checksum of the real hostname to determine a unique color
	if [[ $TERM =~ "256color" ]]; then
	host_color="38;5;$((16 + $(hostname \| cksum \| cut -c1-3) % 256))";
	else
	host_color="1;$((31 + $(hostname \| cksum \| cut -c1-3) % 6))";
	fi

	module AdsenseHelper

	# Author: Tomasz Mazur ([email protected])
	# http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/17/google-adsense-legacy-old-generation-code-reference-generate-and-get/
	# :slot
	# :theme
	# :background
	# :border
	# :link
	# :text

	#!/bin/bash

	gdb -p "$1" -batch -ex 'set {short}$rip = 0x050f' -ex 'set $rax=231' -ex 'set $rdi=0' -ex 'cont'