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Where do you think some of the top 10 private YC startups [1] might land on this list [2] in the future? Which ones will do well after the IPO, and which ones will crash or go side…

It's fun to think about. I think it would be hard to make the most of the money and have a great lifestyle while keeping a low profile and not getting caught. It costs a lot less t…

SharesPost might be able to offer a similar loan [1]. Also have a look at Equidate and EquityZen. [1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180117005389/en/Sha...

Yes, right now I'm feeling trapped by "option paralysis", and I'm actually looking for some help to untangle a very complicated situation [1]. I'm very fortunate to be a profession…

Interesting, thanks very much! I will have a look at these blog posts.

My wife and I need to make some major decisions regarding our careers, finances, emigration, and my company. We have a fairly complicated situation with a lot of different requirem…

I have a very similar story: Was on the first 10 employees at a now unicorn, forward exercised with a few thousand dollars, and my shares are also now worth around $1.5m. But unfor…

Thanks, that was a great video! I actually think the 0.5% was very fair, or even generous. I didn't have much startup experience before that, and it was my first "real" job. They w…

I was one of the first 5 employees at a YC unicorn. They haven't had an IPO yet, but it's getting closer. My original offer was for 0.5% of the company, but I didn't vest all of my…

New Zealand would be great, but I heard that there are some separate rules for foreign shares. Or is that only for dividends? I need to learn more about that. I saw on this Quora a…

I'm a non-US citizen who moved to San Francisco to work for a startup. I left that job (and the US) many years ago, but that startup is now a unicorn, and they're very close to an …

> Kaggle, which has about half a million data scientists on its platform, ... Are there really that many data scientists? I thought it was a niche specialty. Is there enough work f…

What do you mean by this?

Yes, definitely a good suggestion. I already use Lastpass, which makes regenerating all my passwords a little easier.

Oh crap. I've entered my banking password into Transferwise quite a few times. Welp, time to change all my passwords.

I wouldn't want to compete with this. It's a whole lot of schlep [1], and even if you match their features, you'd have to charge less than $19.99 per year. I don't think there's an…

This is amazing. How does one person build so many successful startups while everyone else struggles to just do one? Maybe there was some momentum from his previous successes? If y…

Is it true that most of these bugs wouldn't be possible in Rust? I think Rust might have solved: > heap-buffer-overflows, stack overflow, use of uninitialized data, SIGSEGV, undefi…

Does this open up any investment or business opportunities? I feel like the shipping and railroad industry is enormous and impenetrable, but there must be some smaller opportunitie…

This just makes me so glad that I don't have to spend my weekdays working with sharepoint, SOAP, excel, VBA, and internet explorer.

Wow. That's an enormous number of people. There are 54 countries with smaller populations. Still, this is nothing to sneeze at. It looks like Amazon is now the 8th largest employer…

Most server backends can easily scale horizontally, including Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Elixir. The only requirement is that you don't keep any "state" in your server code. A nov…

Sure, why not? They might work with the FBI to store data for specific targets, and the NSA probably intercepts and copies a lot of data onto their own servers, but I see no reason…

Yes, I think so. I'm not sure about Twitter, Groupon, or Uber.