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What to do when the 409A is changing
My company’s Slack lit up recently because of an announcement that we were going to be redoing our 409A valuation. If you haven’t been around the…
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The Multiples are Falling!
Hey folks, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but apparently the tech sector’s been having, like, a rough go of it lately. And if you’ve been paying any…
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What are your options when you don't have cash to exercise?
Lately, I’ve been increasingly getting asked something along the lines of: “I want to exercise my options, but I don’t have cash to do it. What options…
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Who's really using dbt?
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My (career) investment thesis on dbt Labs
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So you got an offer from a startup...
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How I'm thinking about down rounds and equity during a downturn
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Is Snowflake a database?
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One-year vesting schedules are probably a raw deal for employees
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How AMT impacts the startup employee
In my last article, I wrote a bit about my own personal stock exercise strategy in a down market. The name of the game is essentially: wait and see, but…
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How I'm thinking about down rounds and equity during a downturn
If you’ve been under a rock lately, you might have missed that the sky is falling throughout the tech world. It’s easy to make money on stock in a bull…
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Why Instacart's new 40% lower valuation is actually fantastic for employees
Axios, among others, reported recently that Instacart had cut their valuation from $39B to $24B. In reality, lower valuations are actually a good thing…
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Is Snowflake a database?
Can you have a single database that supports all your workloads? I got asked this question the other day, and it got me thinking...The answer really…
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The reconciliation bill and the tech worker
The proposed reconciliation bill has teed up major changes to qualified small business stock and how retirement accounts work, and it could mean major…
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Why early exercise matters more in today's venture funding climate
There’s pros and cons, and risks and advantages to early exercising stock options. In today’s fundraising climate, more than ever before, I believe that…
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Who's really using dbt?
dbt is data transformation technology that has become very popular with analysts, data scientists, and analytics engineers. Looking at job postings for…
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I’m Natty. I write about the things that interest me, which is typically startups and equity compensation, data, personal finance, and open-source, randomly ordered. My thoughts are semi-structured.

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