Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise options they can’t sell

Re:Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise opt... by mlazos on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:28PM (#15909154)

Does it make sense that managing your own hardware and data center is extraordinarily expensive? Why do you think public cloud providers are so popular? I don’t buy your scalability argument either. Netflix has about 100m users and moved from having their own data centers to AWS and is extremely profitable. Uber has 40m. Given they might have different requirements for a system it might make sense but if scalability is the main reason, that is a bad excuse to undertake a huge infra investment.

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Re:Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise opt... by influx on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:42PM (#15909790)

I think we are violently agreeing :)

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Re:Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise opt... by lhorie on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:10PM (#15909974)

> I don’t buy your scalability argument

Oh, that was what I was told during new employee training. I'm not in the infra org and tbh, I don't really buy the do-it-in-house-for-scalability argument either. I've also seen other employees express sentiments similar to influx's wrt infra.

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Re:Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise opt... by alexeldeib on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:53PM (#15910241)

OP mentioned below, but for clarity you are in complete agreement with the comment you replied to.

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