We gave our first employees restricted stock agreements instead of ISO options, with the exact same legal terms and vesting schedule I got as founder. 2-6% equity grants, six-year vesting, hiring bonuses to cover exercise costs and taxes. Values have to cost something, or they're just words on a website.
Readit Newsmikepk commented on I Gave Our Employees the Same Stock Structure I Got as Founder blog.matterbeam.com/i-gav... · Posted by u/mikepk
Founder here - happy to answer any questions!
mikepk commented on Breaking Monoliths Taught Me How to Fix Data blog.matterbeam.com/break... · Posted by u/mikepk
Founder and CEO if you want to ask me any questions! :)
This is a little triggering :) Reminds me of all the promise back in 2005 when I built my first startup Grazr.
It was:
- a widget that was a mini RSS reader that let visitors to your site read the RSS feeds you subscribed to on your site
- a way to share your collection of RSS feeds dynamically
- a way to copy / remix those collections
- a way to subscribe to those lists dynamically (if they had a dynamic blogroll or whatever)
- a processing and filtering engine to allow merging collections of feeds together into a single stream
- Javascript on the server (in 2005 :) ) run using embedded script tags in the OPML / XML blogrolls to create even more dynamic blogs
The net effect was you could make your own news feeds / timelines and use code to control how they were filtered / combined / etc... It was crazy powerful (for 2005) and I still miss it _today_ since it had the dynamism of the news feed, some of the social aspect, and total control since there was no algorithm other than your and the people's who's list you subscribed to curation and any code you ran against it.
Not a lot left from those long ago days but I did find one slightly-cringy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45DSrU23sPI
:)
mikepk commented on Dyson Sphere Candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and Wise academic.oup.com/mnras/ar... · Posted by u/geox
This is a good point and good perspective I think we need to apply more often - where we separate how difficult a thing is based on the physical scale and the technology feasibility. A Dyson sphere isn’t a technologically impossible thing - the scale is just not feasible, where as you pointed out we have no idea how to do FTL.
It’s not ftl but there are ideas and projects to do interstellar travel in a lifetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
What I would really like to see is “subscribeable OPML feeds”, so GitHub could provide a OPML feed for what shows up in your home page, and you any changes in your subscriptions (repos you watch etc) would change the OPML, which would then cause your feed reader to unsubscribe/subscribe to specific RAS feeds.
Unfortunately, this isn’t supported by the majority of RSS clients (tt-rss is the only one I know) which means in practice OPML feeds are merely import/export mechanisms.
So many memories. That was a big part of my first startup in 2005. Grazr was the “next level of rss”. Unfortunately the first level never quite took off.
https://techcrunch.com/2006/09/18/grazr-10-blasts-off-into-t...