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jdmaturen / company-ownership.md
Last active July 29, 2023 22:39
Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

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

@mdaniel
mdaniel / pkgutil_rm.sh
Last active May 12, 2016 17:58
Uninstall OS X packages using pkgutil manifests
#! /bin/bash
# can't -e because of all the potentially missing files/dirs
# and rm(dir) executions
set -u
args=`getopt dfn $*`
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 [-n] [-f|-d[d]] pkg-id" >&2
exit 1
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Ruby 2.1.0 in Production: known bugs and patches
Last week, we upgraded the github.com rails app to ruby 2.1.0 in production.
While testing the new build for rollout, we ran into a number of bugs. Most of
these have been fixed on trunk already, but I've documented them below to help
anyone else who might be testing ruby 2.1 in production.
@naruse I think we should backport these patches to the ruby_2_1 branch and
release 2.1.1 sooner rather than later, as some of the bugs are quite critical.
I'm happy to offer any assistance I can to expedite this process.
@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active March 27, 2024 06:36
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

@nzakas
nzakas / gist:5511916
Created May 3, 2013 17:47
Using GitHub inside a company

I'm doing some research on how companies use GitHub Enterprise (or public GitHub) internally. If you can help out by answering a few questions, I'd greatly appreciate it.

  1. What is the primary setup? Is there an organization and each official repo is owned by that organization?
  2. Does every engineer have a fork of each repo they're working on?
  3. Are engineers allowed to push directly to the official repo? Or must all commits go through a pull request?
  4. Do engineers work on feature branches on the main repo or on their own forks?
  5. Do you require engineers to squash commits and rebase before merging?
  6. Overall, what is the workflow for getting a new commit into the main repository?
  7. What sort of hooks do you make use of?
  8. Are there any ops issues you encountered? (Scaling, unforeseen downtime, etc.)
@johnbender
johnbender / prefs.js
Created February 23, 2013 06:20
Set up Chrome Secure Shell to handle solarized terminal colors
// Disable bold.
term_.prefs_.set('enable-bold', false)
// Use this for Solarized Dark
term_.prefs_.set('background-color', "#002b36");
term_.prefs_.set('foreground-color', "#839496");
term_.prefs_.set('color-palette-overrides', [
'#073642',
'#dc322f',
@raggi
raggi / validate_local_cache.sh
Last active December 11, 2015 23:39
A script to validate your local gem cache against the public s3 repositories. If you find mismatches that contain both local and remote values, please post them in comments.
#!/usr/bin/env sh
if ! which md5sum > /dev/null; then
echo Install md5sum
exit 1
fi
if ! which curl > /dev/null; then
echo Install curl
exit 1
@jch
jch / en.yml
Created December 28, 2012 00:15 — forked from anonymous/en.yml
# find this file in config/locales/en.yml
# http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html
# https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/blob/master/rails/locale/en.yml
number:
currency:
format:
delimiter: ","
format: "%u%n"
negative_format: "(%u%n)" # <-- wrap negative numbers in parenthesis
precision: 2