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
| def longest_exp_inc_seq(a): | |
| """ | |
| >>> longest_exp_inc_seq([0, 4, 8, 2, 1, 3, 7, 15, 2, 9, 7]) | |
| [0, 1, 3, 7, 15] | |
| """ | |
| if len(a) == 0: | |
| return a | |
| s = [1] * len(a) # the longest subsequence that ends at i | |
| p = [-1] * len(a) # the index of the previous element in the longest subsequence at i |
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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
There are two modes when you don't want Certbot to edit your configuration:
Webroot is better because it doesn't need to replace Nginx (to bind to port 80) to renew certificates.
In the following, we're setting up mydomain.com to be served from /var/www/mydomain, and challenges will be served from /var/www/letsencrypt.
| # /etc/nginx/sites-available/default | |
| server { | |
| listen 80; | |
| server_name <domain name>; | |
| return 301 https://<domain name>$request_uri; | |
| } | |
| server { | |
| listen 80; | |
| server_name www.<domain name>; |
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| #! /usr/bin/python | |
| # | |
| # Church numerals in Python. | |
| # See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding | |
| # | |
| # Vivek Haldar <[email protected]> | |
| # | |
| # https://gist.github.com/2438498 | |
| zero = lambda f: lambda x: x |