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I should have said "if they held exercised options." You are absolutely right if not exercised, and right that there are always risks of declining value if held. It is possible, bt…

I'll add another: 4) a bonus paid at time of exit will be subject to regular income tax, while options can (but don't always) benefit from long term capital gains tax. Rough exampl…

> Where are the VCs getting all their money? Are mainstream banks exposed? Hedge funds? Corporations? Retirement funds? VCs raise money from Limited Partners (LPs). Who are they? T…

That's a number we hit on experimentally. Constraining bandwidth below that, currently, causes the network backup part of the system to perform very, very poorly, resulting in your…

One of the reasons Space Monkey exists: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2856553/cloud-storage/you-c...

Sorry to hear it didn't work out for you, tckr. Since initial delivery, we have made some great strides at reducing bandwidth usage. Just to be clear, we only hear about this being…

The confusion results from two different plans: Plan A: buy the device upfront and own it. Price includes 1 year of network backup service. After the first year, if you want to con…

Everything is private, every user has a unique key associated with their account, and every object (file and folder) has unique, individual encryption keys generated for it. Becaus…

The device needs around 400kbps of uplink capacity currently, though we are working to lower that. In my own home, I'm on the slowest DSL tier that my provider offers, and only hav…

Co-founder of Space Monkey here. I can assure you this was not an acquihire. At the highest levels of the org from CEO and down, Vivint believes in the Space Monkey vision. We're s…

Being anonymous on the Internet? Who woulda thunk? In other words, back to the good old days. Now if we could just cut the cord between these companies and our identities permanent…

1. there have been several attempts (including two of my own!), but it's an ambitious project 2. yes, we're actually very interested internally in opening up large parts of the sys…

Unfortunately, the Kickstarter platform does not allow you to change the descriptions for reward levels once you've pushed the project live (you can add new rewards, but cannot rem…

Yes, under the subscription plan, the company is responsible for reasonable device replacement when they fail (if not due to abuse, etc). That's why the subscription plan costs mor…

There was also no stated warranty at the time you backed (there is now), yet we replaced a device for you that failed, free of charge and without any hassle. We have acted in good …

So it sounds like you are mostly upset with our support staff? Could you help me understand what you believe would have helped to resolve this for you? What we did wrong? Going bac…

The Kickstarter FAQ mentioned the return policy, and explicitly said that pro-rated refunds would occur once the device was returned.

The very first sentence of the Kickstarter page says, "Space Monkey is the next generation cloud. For $10 per month, you get a full Terabyte (1000 Gigabytes) of storage you can use…

We haven't backpedalled on anything. The original rewards offered on Kickstarter stand. We will honor all backer rewards as originally offered. We simply believe that the offering …

Evidence we've already provided you in our numerous correspondences: - Kickstarter project called itself "Complete Cloud storage subscription service" - Kickstarter project added a…

Hi there, I work for Space Monkey. Let me shed some light on all this. The vast majority of our Kickstarter backers have responded overwhelmingly positively to the offer. In fact, …

Yes, that is my experience too. But I don't care; google drive is for google docs, and google docs aren't useful at all on my desktop. I'm not sure why I even run the gdrive deskto…

cloud storage prices continue to increase , as compared to raw hard drive prices.