My role as a founder-CTO: year 8

Re:My role as a founder-CTO: year 8 by afavour on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @04:17PM (#46448459)

With respect, those words feel very empty. Face the prospect of, say, chemotherapy you can’t afford or death. See how you feel about dignity and grace then.

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Re:My role as a founder-CTO: year 8 by stoneforger on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @06:27PM (#46449422)

So people who can't afford a broken system cannot afford dignity or grace? We should be ashamed we allow this kind of collective paranoia.

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Re:My role as a founder-CTO: year 8 by FreakLegion on Thursday January 01, 2026 @02:55AM (#46452161)

We're deep in a thread questioning a founder's choice not to sell their company. a) The company is 8 years old, b) the founder's stake is 9 figures, and c) they've done at least one secondary, meaning d) the founder has almost certainly cashed out $10m exempt from federal taxes (founder has held shares > 5 years for QSBS treatment, and $10m < 10% of founder's stake, a common threshold of concern for investors).

Your hypotheticals simply aren't relevant here.

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