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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

Phoenix Nodes

First I created 3 droplets on digital ocean with 4-cores and 8GB of RAM. Login as root to each and run:

sysctl -w fs.file-max=12000500
sysctl -w fs.nr_open=20000500
ulimit -n 4000000
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_mem='10000000 10000000 10000000'

	# Tests for antialiasing a high-frequency image in various ways
	# Nathan Reed, July 2014
	# Written for Python 3.4; requires numpy and Pillow to be installed

	import concurrent.futures
	import math
	import multiprocessing
	import numpy as np
	import optparse
	import random

	/*
	Copyright 2011 Martin Hawksey

	Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	You may obtain a copy of the License at

	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

	Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

	on searchReplace(theText, SearchString, ReplaceString)
	set OldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to SearchString
	set newText to text items of theText
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ReplaceString
	set newText to newText as text
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldDelims
	return newText
	end searchReplace

	using UnityEngine;

	public class UISortBehavior : MonoBehaviour
	{
	public UIWidget widgetInFrontOfMe;

	[System.NonSerialized]
	Renderer m_renderer;

	void Awake() {

	package yourgaeproject

	// go-iap doesn't work for GAE since we need to use urlfetch
	//
	// Copy this source file to your GAE to your project.
	//
	// The API is mostly the same as go-iap. I prefixed some stuff since this file lives within my GAE project's package.
	// client, err := PlaystoreNew(ctx, jsonKey)
	//
	// purchase, err := client.VerifyProduct("com.you.yourapp", productId, purchaseToken)