Readit NewsIf you signed one of these and hack on the side… successful business could be owned by your previous company.
You can always ask that they release the IP which requires the lawyers to officially sign it over to you.
Before you quit your job make sure you own it.
vulnerability scanning of your images.
Fargate
RDS
The problem is that containers are excellent, and IMO there's a gap in the market between "I want to run one container" and "I want a fully managed k8s cluster"
Maybe I've just had a bad sample size, but I just haven't experienced a big enough win by using alpine to justify the weird scenarios that come up on occasion.
The idea is nice. A small, stripped down container that will load quickly and have very few maintenance issues (due to basically zero dependencies). But my debian-slim images work well enough and when I do hit a problem there's more community around it and it's more straightforward to fix.
I generally ask these questions:
1. What was the pre/post money valuation of the company at the last round.
2. How much runway do they have right now including already planned increases in burn (i.e hiring plans for the quarter/year).
3. What % interest in the company would my options grant represent? (you use this in combination with the information about the valuation to determine value of said grant)
4. Who are the major non-founder investors in the company? (this is generally public knowledge because investors love to announce these but it's worth asking). Sometimes the CEO will also divulge details about how they work with their investors, level of involvement, board seats etc. CEOs love to talk about these things for some reason.
5. When do they plan to raise money next and do they feel like they are meeting the metrics required for an up round? If not then how does my hiring or other planned hiring seek to address that?
The last question is actually really important and generally how I a) tie my employment to actual value at the company and b) justify my compensation in negotiation stage and/or later negotiations when I can show how my performance has directly affected these important metrics.
Any company worth their salt at the sort of stage where these questions are relevant will answer these, the degree of detail will depend on transparency of the leadership.
Generally speaking when looking to join a company of this size you will be meeting with the CEO, usually after meeting everyone else and before negotiating compensation - that is when you ask these questions and this is exactly what that meeting is for.
If they don't want to answer these then take that as a sign things are worse than they seem and perhaps negotiate for a more cash rich compensation and don't bet hard on the companies future.
What’s the fully diluted number?
How many shares am I getting?
Those are the important questions.
Assume you get diluted for every fund raise.
Then go to the company’s website and look for postings or email them and tell them you're interested.