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Amazon Snowball? https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/

Agree with the points around increasing equity and comp. One thing about option plans is that the devil is in the details. How things play out in a liquidity event or the tax ramifications can be large based upon how the plan was set up years prior. My guess is founders probably don't spend a lot of time sweating these details and the lawyers are concerned about protecting the company. YC could help by pushing for plans that are employee friendly. Publish articles about how to set up plans in a good way. Publish articles about what employees should look for when comparing offers. Possibly publish legal docs that companies can start from similar to other sets of documents you've published.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (US) I am a senior full-stack developer and DevOps/infrastructure engineer.

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Java, Healthtech/HL7, Chef, Jenkins, AWS

GitHub: https://github.com/crwohlfeil

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil

You can get in touch with me at [email protected]

SEEKING WORK - Remote (US) I am a senior full-stack developer and DevOps/infrastructure engineer.

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Java, Healthtech/HL7, Chef, Jenkins, AWS

GitHub: https://github.com/crwohlfeil

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil

You can get in touch with me at [email protected]

SEEKING WORK - Remote (US) I am a senior full-stack developer and DevOps/infrastructure engineer.

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Java, Healthtech/HL7, Chef, Jenkins, AWS

GitHub: https://github.com/crwohlfeil

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil

You can get in touch with me at [email protected]

SEEKING WORK - Remote (US) I am a senior full-stack developer and DevOps/infrastructure engineer.

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Java, Healthtech/HL7, Chef, Jenkins, AWS

GitHub: https://github.com/crwohlfeil

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil

You can get in touch with me at [email protected]

SEEKING WORK - Remote (US) I am a senior full-stack developer and DevOps/infrastructure engineer.

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Java, Chef, Jenkins, AWS

GitHub: https://github.com/crwohlfeil

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil

You can get in touch with me at [email protected]

SEEKING WORK - Remote (US) I am a senior full-stack Java developer and DevOps/infrastructure engineer. I can help you with:

  * Understanding your goals and translating them to a technical solution
  * Prototyping/MVP
  * Full-stack development work
  * Improving your development tools
  * Setting up continuous integration and deployment
  * Automated testing
  * DevOps and automating your infrastructure

Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Chef, Jenkins, AWS

GitHub: https://github.com/crwohlfeil

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil

You can get in touch with me at [email protected].

SEEKING WORK - Remote (US)

I am a senior full-stack Java developer and DevOps/infrastructure engineer. I can help you with:

  * Understanding your goals and translating them to a technical solution
  * Prototyping/MVP
  * Full-stack development work
  * Improving your development tools
  * Setting up continuous integration and deployment
  * Automated testing
  * DevOps and automating your infrastructure

Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Chef, Jenkins, AWS

GitHub: https://github.com/crwohlfeil

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil

You can get in touch with me at [email protected].

Have you had success replying to those posts and asking 'Would you consider a freelancer for this position?' or how do you go about it since these threads seem to implicitly indicate that they're looking for employees?

The system they are proposing would assign a code to each residence/building.

Successful startups go through a couple of phases as they grow. At each phase the skills needed from the team will change because the challenges to get to the next level are different. And the team will often turn over along the way. Not everyone who was there in the beginning will be there at the end. And that's okay. Now maybe you have the skills and experience to grow with the organization along the way or maybe you don't. Lots of people maybe can and maybe can't. Sometimes it depends upon where you are in your career. Was this your first time managing? Then maybe you need more experience and growth to be the CTO of such a large org. It can often feel like a demotion when you are passed over and senior positions are filled from the outside. I understand where you are coming from. I've been in your position.

Whether the CEO lied to you or not really depends upon context. When did he tell you this? Obviously things have changed as the company has grown. Perhaps he didn't foresee the need for a CTO at the time but now he does. Things change and the needs of the company change with them. And remember he himself is growing and learning as a manager. If he was inexperienced he probably just couldn't foresee the need. Also how realistic is it that a growing/successful technology company won't have a CTO? I find it unusual that it took until ~450 people to get one.

Where do you go from here? If you'd like to be CTO (of your current company or another) the first step is an honest self assessment of the skills and experience you'll need to attain and perform in the position. Second you'll want to talk to the CEO about where you fit in to the company and your room for growth. You'll need to convey your understanding of the need to bring in senior management but also convey that you feel that you can grow along with the org to accept more responsibility. See if you can lay out a plan to do that. If you don't like what you hear coming out of that process then its time to start looking around.

Ben Horowitz has a really good blog post that touches on a lot of this stuff. http://www.bhorowitz.com/demoting_a_loyal_friend