"To be clear, the term requiring startups to pay for investor counsel fees is unjust. This is because startups are forced to pay the legal fees of the counsel negotiating against them. "
I wonder if YC would start pushing investors to stop this practice
I wrote this post over the weekend that caught on in /r/cscareerquestions (192k views so far) & on Github (539 stars). I'm interested to hear if there are topics members of HN are interested in too. A few of the topics being:
- Reviewing companies & selecting the right opportunity
- Salaries, pay raises, and how packages are structured
- Startups vs big companies
- Stock options vs RSUs - how they work, exercising them, the tax implications.
- Bonuses - what to expect and also the tax implications
- Investing in your retirement (401ks, IRAs, etc)
- Real estate - renting in these high costs of living areas vs buying
- Tech investing - becoming an angel investor & VC investing
- Contract work - how to bill & taxes
"The exercise price of Mr. Khosrowshahi’s options was lowered to $33.65 per share by the company early last year, eight months after they were issued at $41.65. Such repricings have become rare at public companies due to fierce opposition from investor advisory firms and other investor groups. The repricing, which was disclosed in a regulatory filing but hasn’t previously been reported, could cause some investors to view Uber’s board more skeptically, said an investor group."
This is a mission critical bug for any other startups that depend upon the Adaptive Payment API. That may only be a subset of Paypal merchants, but for those that do - you need to know this ASAP.
Saved up, took a year off, and just went at it. Having friends that knew Python definitely helped when Stackoverflow couldn't help. Usually that was because I was asking the question/thinking of the problem wrong.
Just saw this was picking up steam so if you have any questions, happy to answer them! Some might remember me from my posts a few years ago when I quit my job to learn how to code. Happy to answer any of those questions as well...