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Really interesting post, thanks! You mentioned a few recommended readings (High Output Management, The Score Takes Care of Itself), which are all great general management books. Ha…

Curious about this part: without cash in a checking account, people often have to resort to predatory financial products like payday loans or high-interest credit cards in order to…

As a long-time Pythonista who's been using Ruby for work for a year now, I've really grown to appreciate anonymous multiline blocks, and wish they were a Python feature. I am not a…

This is a great list of questions! Is there a list out there on how what sorts of questions to ask for engineers or other non-PM roles?

This is really cool! It has a bunch of rover data, altitude tracking, etc. See: https://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs-m-accel-5-altitude-v1.1/mg... Which has some headers like this: IN…

Hey - founder of http://offerletter.io here - some thoughts, in no particular order. My first thought is, get a lawyer and accountant, immediately. My second thought is, yes, you k…

Founder of http://OfferLetter.io here - Harj, love what you're doing with a common YC app, and the spirit of the hiring manifesto. I'm curious about your approach to making sure th…

Patrick's got a ton of great insight into salary negotiations, and this post is no exception. Everybody (especially engineers) - needs to get comfortable talking about compensation…

I have incredibly mixed feelings about this. Zero-negotiation policies are great tools for eliminating unfairness if executed well , the problem is that you still force the employe…

What's the most exciting non-traditional segment (bio, energy, manufacturing, etc) you're looking forward to funding startups in?

It's not a marketplace per se, but at http://OfferLetter.io , we guide candidates on exactly this offer selection problem. More generally, we preach that everybody should have the …

Looks fantastic Patrick! Your original blog post on salary negotiation actually helped lay early mental groundwork for what later became http://OfferLetter.io . One thing I'd love …

This is an absolutely silly mentality: 1) A lot of people do make money off of employee stock, you just have to be reasonably intelligent about it. This blog post is a good way to …

This is a great rundown - I'd like to chime in with our own blog post [1] Basically, there are a handful of questions you must ask about your options: > What is the number of share…

I highly, highly encourage all employees with options packages to go through our equity checklist and blog post here: http://offerletter.io/blog/201412-understanding-and-negotiat..…

Agreed about not naming the first number, deflecting, and broken mental models. But this post paints a woefully incomplete picture of the negotiation process - the mental model of …

San Francisco | VISA | REMOTE I'd like to put in a word for the Career Agency team at http://OfferLetter.io - we are building the first true talent agency for tech. We align incent…