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It's crazy to me that this got let through Congress. Hoping they make it right.

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Some people honestly just need 4-5 hours of sleep. I used to work for Zillow and their CEO Spencer only sleeps 4-5 hours a night. It's all he needs and all he's ever done, according to people who have worked for him for a long time.

But these people are the exception not the rule. I think the reason they tend to be successful is because they are up before everyone else and have time to get a lot accomplished before they are thrown into the day with everyone else's schedules pulling on them.

> I can't necessarily say whether they had inefficiencies in their company structure, but they certainly over hired.

Yep, we are seeing this time and time again with startups in the Bay Area who went on a landgrab for talent a few years ago and now realize they can't support them as the VC money dried up. I actually wonder if Medium was trying to raise more and they were unable to, therefore they have to do this and are trying to spin it positively.

I respect Ev a lot. He revolutionized blogging and publishing on the web. And I want Medium to do well. And maybe I'm too cynical about the startup and SV world (I moved away from SF in October), but this smells of the same old same old to me.

Google's search results for this query rank a Holocaust-denying site first. This is meant to rank #1 for the query and clean up that search result.

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Precisely. Bay Area is unlike any other.

a) Would be better displayed as a sliding scale instead of a median. b) not listing the real Twitter founders and their ownership is a huge oversight.

I'd be interested in how much equity each venture firm had for each of these too.

Indeed. I also leave my phone in another room and have a separate alarm clock. Really helps with quality sleep!

Yeah that's insane. We use a local one here in SF (Sudzee) though it also can take a day or two to pick up and a day or two to return, and on weekends that's a bummer. And it costs $45 each time for over 40lbs of laundry.

I miss my days of $12 wash and fold in Brooklyn :-/

I value stock options at zero. There is potentially a huge upside if you are an early employee at a company that gets enormous. Even then, you have to be top 20 or 30 to get f-you money, and even then it might not even be that.

I had stock options (not RSUs) at BigCo where I worked for 2 years. At one point, had I been fully vested, I was sitting on about $240k worth of stock. After a 3x1 split and the company going back down to almost the strike price I was granted stock (and most of it was worthless because was given it as part of a raise at a high strike), after I parted ways with the company and sold my options (had to as part of the severance agreement), I walked away with $2000. Basically a $1k/yr bonus. I would have gladly taken extra salary instead of stock. Lesson learned.

Right! I'm sorry, but $9k/mo in revenue with 45 sales people and $100k in expenses??

Definitely not in a bubble. I run my own bootstrapped company that does $5k/mo recurring and my expenses are sub $750 a month.

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What a classic terrible management move. I worked at a ski shop in college that also sold (really bad) used ski equipment on eBay. One time the lead manager accidentally let a lot of stock go live with a $1 minimum. They realized it and went back in under different accounts and bid them all up. When eBay caught them, they blamed the employees for it (myself and 4 others), who all had nothing to do with it.

We all quit the next day. Who wants to work for someone like that?

Woah didn't know that. Thanks!

Man, these should be in a museum somewhere. What an amazing piece of history.

Holy shit that last line gave me goosebumps, especially being a climber and extreme sports enthusiast and knowing that Dean's spirit animal was the Raven.