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inmygarage

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About inmygarage

entrepreneur and lover of the internets.

ap [at] amandapeyton [dot] com

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    Show HN: Pool – A lightweight financial account with members and rules

    Hey all, we’ve been working on a new consumer financial account called Pool. It’s designed to be ephemeral and used for a specific purpose. Checking accounts have turned into a jun…

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    Author here. Every week was better than the last, and I didn't expect all the bank/third-party stuff to get SO bad. It felt manageable in October 2021, but for most of H1 2022, the…

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    I've been thinking about writing some sort of white paper on this, because a lot of what we did was relatively unknown and may benefit the larger financial community. "I guess I'm …

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    Author here, yes this is what happened. It wasn't related to our model specifically but rather to the bank's entire portfolio.

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    Hey there - I'm the author of the essay, happy to weigh in. First, your initial reaction makes sense, and we spent many years (and as noted in the piece, millions of dollars) creat…

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    Hey all -- Co-founder of Braid here. I'm a YC alum (S2010). Excited to share Braid w/everyone today. We are building a group account with a debit card and permissions. It eliminate…

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    Compound | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://compound.co Compound is a new P2P payments app currently in stealth. We are building a brand-new P2P payments network from scratch, …

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    Compound | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://compound.co Compound is a new P2P payments app currently in stealth. We are building a brand-new P2P payments network from scratch, …

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    (edited w last sentence) It is proof that she wrote a book. To present an analogy about Susan Fowler with "if a journalist with no experience..." is to present an analogy that is f…

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    She is currently running a magazine at Stripe (as in, she is the EIC). She was hired for this job in January, before publishing her blog post. She is represented by InkWell, a well…

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    Comment #14118332

    Amex flooded their signed-in experience with awful pop-ups: upgrade your card! get a personal loan! It's distracting when, as a user, I'm simply trying to see how much I need to pa…

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    IANAL, but I do not believe you can file an 83(b) election for options. You can only file an 83(b) for NSOs or restricted stock. I am not sure if, post-exercise, the options become…

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    Comment #12170332

    Generally as a startup, many applicants come through current employees, friends, investors, etc. This generally encourages the cycle of the same people getting the same jobs. Don't…

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    While convertible notes and SAFE documents have made seed stage financing much more streamlined and straightforward, employee equity is still a hot mess in terms of the legal, fina…

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