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shivaas

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About shivaas

co-founder@Remitly (NYSE: $RELY). I build products that solve real problems for people. Fintech nerd.

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    Comment #35179816

    When you do a private tender offer like this, either the company or the new investors purchase common stock from employees. It's possible Stripe is issuing some preferred shares to…

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    Comment #31114970

    https://www.fintechbookclub.com/ and https://notafintech.company/ are two other resources I'd point you at to learn more about US banking and fintech in general.

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    Comment #31114953

    this is probably closer to the truth that you might have imagined :) that at that most of the $1T+ ACH transfers that happen daily in the US banking system happen over plaintext fi…

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    Comment #25446470

    Do you have a source for this assertion? I assuming the privacy policy or terms of use would have this spelled out fairly clearly.

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    Comment #24603108

    thank you!

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    Comment #24128476

    Interesting. I assumed that they would develop a bigger fairing but I guess they did the match and figured out the optimal size based on demand for payload size/weight

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    Comment #24117769

    does anyone know why they can't use the falcon heavy for these launches and launch more satellites in one go ? It says falcon 9 carries 60 satellites per launch and I'm guessing so…

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    Comment #24078874

    this is tangential to the problem https://www.ganaz.com/ is solving I believe. Labor for industries like cruise ships (~400k), cargo ships (1.1M), dairy etc is still organized and …

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    Comment #23973022

    We're hiring at Remitly :)

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    Comment #23729797

    For a direct flight, you're looking at about a ~10hr flight (~5620KM's). For that range, you're looking at anywhere between 10-15k/hour average price (eg: G-IV, G-650 type planes).…

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    Comment #22590463

    can confirm. opening link in incognito worked for me.

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    Comment #19469228

    English works fine. Get a roaming data plan and use google translate for situations where basic english doesn't cut it. I also print out common phrases and words and try and learn …

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    Comment #18782549

    opened the article expecting to read a wide array of tech and coordinated pyrotechnic systems used to disperse the confetti, but at the end of the day, good old human power and sim…

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    Comment #18055064

    - Travel more (both in number of places, and number of weird new things you try). Once you're in the throes of starting a family and settling in with a spouse, this becomes harder.…

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    Comment #17910861

    If you embrace it, its totally fine. Lived in Pittsburgh for 2yrs before moving to Seattle and the trading of snow storms with the rain/wet weather in the winters is a win in my op…

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    Comment #17455156

    full article without paywall: http://marketcoinnews.com/2018/07/ripple-labs-faces-third-se...

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    Comment #17298657

    This. Was in Venice beach this past May and the Birds were everywhere, to the point where we almost felt compelled to give them a try, even though we had no need. Both wife and mys…

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    Comment #16768961

    The merchant pays anywhere from 1.6% to 3% of the transaction amount in fees to the payment processors/gateways. Part of this goes to Visa/MC and the issuing banks. Apple gets a cu…

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    Comment #15849086

    Remitly | Senior Software Development Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, ONSITE We're looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer for our Platform team to help us build and…

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    Comment #14551307

    https://www.droneseed.co/ based out of Seattle is building drones and seed cartridges specifically for reforestation.

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    Comment #14239114

    Remitly | Full-stack Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, ONSITE We're looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to help us build and grow the next version of the Remitly customer …

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    Comment #13558424

    pretty ingenious I think. why not stand out if you can?

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    Comment #11820044

    Remitly | Seattle, WA (downtown) | Sr. Engineer | ONSITE About Us: Remitly is a mobile payments service that enables consumers to conveniently make person-to-person international m…

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    Comment #11406823

    Remitly | Seattle, WA (downtown) | Sr. Engineer | ONSITE About Us: Remitly is a mobile payments service that enables consumers to conveniently make person-to-person international m…