madelinecameron

> I'm a serial startup CTO

Is that a bad thing or a good thing? Like, have all your previous places closed, exited, what?

Is that course actually useful? Watching a lot of Gary V's vlogs and ask shows makes it seem like he only puts that out for people who are clueless.

Is it Social Media for Dummies or is it actual discussion of strategies?

>And to make things even more confusing, our engineers were all using the dogfooding version of Asana, which runs on different AWS-EC2 instances than the production version

... That kind of defeats the purpose of "dogfooding". Sure, you have to use the same code (hopefully) but it doesn't give you the same experience.

I just don't think value is only delivered over a 10 year period. It should take a decade (or 7 years) to get your initial 'reward'.

It doesn't make sense to be locked into something for a decade that may not even be the same in a decade. Just personal preference though, maybe someone will be up for decade of vesting.

I guess it makes sense that if you object to having nearly, if not completely, equal equity splits, you shouldn't work together.

If you aren't willing to give significant equity, they either aren't valuable enough or you don't see them as crucial.

I don't think they meant brand risk to Stripe. Credit card companies don't like "immoral" businesses and refuse to do business with them.

There are quite a few stories about porn stars having their credit cards closed just because of how they make a living.

There is a portion in there that mentions Stripe sees this regulation as "overly moralistic" and that credit card companies have "old school morals".

Eh, we just don't talk about it.

My fiance works in a t-shirt printing shop and I work as a developer. I enjoy hearing about his work, he enjoys hearing about mine but we know neither of us could do what the other does.

If your purview of mental health starts and stops at ADD/ADHD, you aren't really qualified to write off all of psychology.

Yeah... like I like this idea. I just don't know how sustainable it is. I am decent with money (Almost 0 debt, almost 1 month of expenses, etc) but I don't really feel like living in self-inflicted poverty.

I have done it before and I know I can do it, but I don't see the point in inflicting abject poverty on myself just so I am vaguely protected.

I understand what you are coming from, but really isn't for me. (Maybe when my income grows / I don't live in NYC...)

Definitely. The "worst case" is just walk away from my lease and move in with in-laws.

>You should save until you have at least two years

It is a little late to be doing this.

I have pretty bare-bones expenses (Fine, my apartment is 40% of my income) but I would struggle to save 24-months of expenses any time soon.

Unless you are making like $250k and living on $50k, I would say it is a little late to be stocking up to survive a downturn. I could do it if given probably 5 years, but I couldn't pull that off in 1 year.

I don't see how someone can rationalize that someone making $100k should have to have roommates.

I am not saying they need more money, but I don't understand how we have gotten to the point of chiding people making six-figures like they work at McDonalds and want a BMW.

>I want to fix something that's manifestly broken. I envy Elon Musk above all others, because he's seen terribly important things that were very broken, and had what it took to break all barriers to fixing them.

Here is the thing though: Elon didn't pop into existence as the founder of SpaceX or Telsa, or being involved in PayPal.

The way I see it is that he didn't just take the steps to break through the barriers, he took all the steps to get to the barrier.

No one glamorizes what it takes to get to being where Elon is (ok, maybe not a lot of people) but you have to start somewhere.

Sure. Writing an app isn't going to save the world, but maybe if you can fix just one little bitty problem (even if it is just other people's boredom!), maybe you can take that little bit of leverage / money / whatever to move on to something even bigger, ad infinitum. :)

Everything is a gun then.

I ate a banana once. I will die some day. Bananas are guns.