ecolner

Barring a fair market salary I would argue an even split is appropriate. If this is a tech company, the other party doesn't need you for a series A, they need you to run the company... which at this inflection point is fundraising.

Just spitballing here: In exchange I would be generous on the vesting side of the equation. I'd ask for half the company over 6 years where you get ~75% of your shares in the first 2 years of the relationship. The company will probably be dead by that time anyway (based on how these things go). If not, you've earned your keep.

You'd definitely be wise to consult an attorney about how to execute whatever deal you agree to do. They'd probably be able to give you better advice.

Is there a salary attached to this deal?

Dunno Linode, but Digital Ocean makes sense for these requirements.

Great write up on the psychology of starting. I think this feeling is easy to conceptualize, but hard to truly understand unless you're an actual founder. Most people want you to be successful even if they don't show it though.

Free for filers that make $58,000 or less.

nice

I would say that most of the "loopholes" that you're referring to aren't really accessible to the average Joe because most of us make what's considered "Earned Income". That's what your salary is considered and it's taxed according to your tax bracket. Wealthy people will structure their income and their holdings in ways to minimize the amount classified in the earned income bucket. The extreme is when executives take $1 salary.

The AI is going to be superior in terms of explaining which factors played in your return. This will become clearer how powerful it is when the application suggests ways to optimize your situation and you basically have a playbook in hand to use.

I've done this when I was working on the Playstation Network so business users could define storefront categories that contain products based on their own custom logic. We didn't get a lot of requests to change the feature and it was stupid simple. I wouldn't get too fancy unless your users get really excited about it and ask for it to do more.

Tax pros care about speed even more than consumers, but I'm not sure there's a problem with that. It's just a different mindset.

Sorry to be vague, but honestly it's not a riddle. It's just not something we want to announce yet.

It isn't a concern.

We'll announce that in the future.

Cool! I'm forwarding it to the team.