nealchandra

The way you can test if it's accidental gambling is by answering the following:

If you had worked at a different company with pure cash comp equivalent to your RSUs, would you have invested the same $$ in Google stock? Or would you have invested it instead in an aggressive but diversified portfolio (e.g. 100% S&P 500 or even just a bucket of blue-chip tech stocks).

I am confident that for the vast majority of tech employees they would choose the latter if they were operating in a pure cash regime.

I wonder how much of the human side of this process could be automated. Would be cool to see something like this where it automatically sends message to potential sellers, etc -- and you're only notified when there's actually a possible purchase to be made.

Hmm, are you having issues with the API itself? Olark isn't related to the API (it's the customer support widget in the bottom right). If the API is also not working, it's possible there's a separate unrelated issue.

You can also try hitting the API directly rather than through the explorer and see if that gives you the correct result. If you are still having problems feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected]!