yossorion

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

tomysmile

Install Virtualbox && Vagrant for MacOSX

Vagrant uses Virtualbox to manage the virtual dependencies. You can directly download virtualbox and install or use homebrew for it.

$ brew cask install virtualbox

Now install Vagrant either from the website or use homebrew for installing it.

brandon-rhodes

# Inspired by the following sentence that I ran across this morning:
#
#    "f_lineno is the current line number of the frame - writing to
#     this from within a trace function jumps to the given line
#     (only for the bottom-most frame). A debugger can implement a
#     Jump command (aka Set Next Statement) by writing to f_lineno."
#
#    https://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html
#
# There is an older implementation of a similar idea: