From Show HN to Series D

youeseh wrote: post #6

witcherchaos wrote: post #4

Series D (with 3 seed rounds) and 4 founders....what does the equity shares for each founder look like? 3% maybe?

Their equity percentage may have gone down but the value of their equity probably went up.

Or looking at it another way, you can stress out for a company for 8 year (in case of segment), or or you can join the company as a c-level exec at year 6 for the same amount of equity

Re: From Show HN to Series D

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Post by whalesalad » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 6:55 PM UTC

Always been a huge fan of Segment. At one point I think I had a tiny little mention on the Readme of their Ruby client for fixing an issue w/ Unicorn. I jumped head first into event sourcing after their blog post demonstrating how overkill websockets are most of the time. I consider them to have their shit together.

Then I applied to become an engineer there and had one of the worst experiences of my life with a project. The project involved building a clone of their realtime event debugger with React. I really felt as though I had knocked it out of the park... I even used their Evergreen UI framework. All I got was a very brief thanks but no thanks kind of reply that left a very bitter taste in my mouth.

Re: From Show HN to Series D

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Post by coverband » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

Very inspiring, thanks for sharing!