orangechairs
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teching around, doing tech things. ugh, you wouldn't understand.
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Comment · 1 year ago
^^ Can corroborate. Intel had a fleet of airplanes for employee use commuting between sites. You did not have to be an exec or VP to fly.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am rooting for this to be the case, and frankly it should be, but typically the massive startup boom comes from companies IPOing (PayPal mafia, Google mafia, etc.). So much talent has been locked up at Intel, I'm hoping this is a liberation of sorts.
Comment · 1 year ago
In Oregon, the layoffs were 3x-4x more than in AZ. What's kicked both regions in the teeth is that the layoffs were 4x-5x more than what Intel had stated.
OregonLive has been reporting for weeks that 500+ Oregon Intel jobs were going to be cut -- they cut 2500 jobs. This is also round 3 (?) of Intel's layoffs in the last 12 months. It's massive and devastating.
Comment · 1 year ago
SingleStore (nee MemSQL) was/is niche -- great fit inside banks in particular.
Comment · 1 year ago
How are Neon employees doing? Heard Neon laid off a few teams this week. That's fun. Anyone hear if their shares are worth anything in the acquisition?
Comment · 1 year ago
So many companies have massive teams in India -- tomorrow could be more like a mock drill of our globally distributed engineering systems.
Comment · 1 year ago
Anyone hear rumors of how much they were acquired for?
Comment · 1 year ago
Can any employees confirm if they're getting shut out of the sale? Is this another startup where the employees' shares are lit on fire?
"Another source told TechCrunch that equity holders “got zero’d” so “founders, employees and VCs” will get “nothing” from the sale. The identity of the source, who asked to remain anonymous, has been verified by TechCrunch."
Comment · 2 years ago
That's correct - CockroachDB's license changed in 2019, from Apache 2.0 to a permissive version of the BSL: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroach...
"We’re adopting an extremely permissive version of the Business Source License (BSL). CockroachDB users can scale CockroachDB to any number of nodes. They can use CockroachDB or embed it in their applications (whether they ship those applications to customers or run them as a service). They can even run it as a service internally. The one and only thing that you cannot do is offer a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service without buying a license."