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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • My record is a year. Holy fuck did I burn that networking opportunity.

    “Hey there; I know it’s been—holy moly, a year?!—since you messaged me but I just wanted to say that it was good to hear from you and that I enjoyed working with you.”+some other specific potentially identifiable stuff.

    I never got a response; even a year later (although that would have been super funny to encounter such a similar soul).





  • He would’ve screwed you anyway. “Equity” is so laughably easy to dilute to nada in startups through various means that there are numerous articles and parodies of it out there.

    I worked for a startup that didn’t meet its VC’s “valuation” goal even though we were stupidly profitable nearly from day one. Market-forces driven downround. When I left, the options I had were previously promised to be worth hundreds of thousands but because of dilution, weren’t worth the paper they were printed on. I didn’t let them give me options “in lieu of base comp” though, so I ended up ok but not everyone did.