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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 tha…
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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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After I posted an article about Peter Thiel’s $5B Roth IRA a couple weeks ago, I had a handful of readers reach out to me asking if early employees cou…
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Data has been the common theme throughout my career. I took the leap to join dbt Labs a couple months ago, and have only developed more and more convic…
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The other day, there was a recent ProPublica (which has been on a roll, writing some incredible pieces about how the uber-wealthy wiggle out of tax bur…
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Capital is flowing at historically low prices, huge rounds are happening faster than ever. This is great for companies and tenured employees, but can b…
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More frequent, larger, faster fundraising cycles makes being an early-stage startup employee doing a job hunt a little bit like trying to catch a falli…
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I was having a discussion with a friend recently, who was inquiring about some of my philosophies on open-source and asked: “when does open-source make…
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I happened across an interesting article recently from The Information (paywall ahead, unfortunately), about how Stripe and Lyft are changing their equ…
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As a product-minded person, running an Airbnb has been a really interesting experience. Now that my wife and I have been running an Airbnb out of our h…
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I’m in a truly lucky, and privileged position, to be able to afford and own a house in the Bay Area. A bit part of the reason we bought the house we di…
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