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This sucks. I was at Google many years back and I remember her to be an awesome product leader. In fact even though I was another org, she was helpful and really helped me and our …

I can’t use them as well.

Just saw this news here. He taught me at Cornell when I was a CS undergrad and I remember that class fondly. I still remember one of his office hours which was a day or two before …

As a 90s Indian cricket fan, this was exactly my thought :-)

Delhi is DC - capital of the country, lots of politicians and bureaucrats. Also spread out quite a bit and with lots of impressive historical and government buildings. Mumbai is LA…

This is a tough one, but I would look for signals that you would look for even with non-Indians. e.g. is someone being excluded from team building activities, OR after work get tog…

Kudos to your parents. I was fortunate that even while growing up in India, my parents never told me my caste and never filled it out in any school forms. If they teachers pushed f…

He is talking about Monday not today, Tuesday. RH didn’t work on Monday either.

This is not fully accurate. You have to pay AMT on the difference between your strike price and the current 409a price of common. It doesn't have much to do with where preferred is…

Wow, that is cool to hear. We used to get the British coverage, so grew up with Murray Walker.

Is the commentator Murray Walker by any chance :-)

It shouldn't matter a lot since I am 99% sure that they were issuing RSUs at that time and not options. So the strike price based on 3-years ago valuation is not relevant. Also, I …

In general this is good advice. However I would advice against depending too much on VCs. They don’t really get it right a lot of the time. At the end of the day it is the caliber …

Ha - I think you might be thinking about 2009-2011 or so. That was the Google+ effort (under VicG) and thinking that games (like it did with Facebook) would be a key driver of grow…

The comment was about how WhatsApp was good with the model they had before facebook’s acquisition and how now the model to make money is because of mbas. That is what I am commenti…

I don’t understand the MBA hate here. The WhatsApp founders don’t have MBAs and sold their company to Facebook for 19 billion. They wanted to be that rich. Nothing to do with MBAs.…

It is kinda cool to think that Scott himself was a really young undergraduate at Cornell. I believe he was 16 when he was a freshman at Cornell and we would hear whispers of the ch…

I found the article very insightful. I spent the weekend reviewing Dropbox's S1 and had the same issue - they are not being completely honest about their cohort retention numbers. …

This might be unpopular, but California is a great example of a place where taxes are high, but it is not spent well. I remember looking at this a few years back, and although the …