1/ Today I'm excited to announce the a16z START program, an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program designed to help founders at the earliest stages with $1M in funding. So what is a16z START? More 👇
People in their 30s forget how broke, insecure, and anxious they were in their 20s.
It’s a lot of working long hours, eating frozen food, and doing all of your own housework and life admin.
At work😄
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Can I at least get comment access?
Did you get the invite?
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Signals a startup truly cares about the financial outcomes of their employees:
✅ Offer ability to early exercise stock
✅ Extend the option window to exercise to 10 yrs
✅ If founders want to sell equity in secondary rounds, offer the same opportunity to tenured employees
If you’re thinking of joining an early stage startup, especially in a senior role, you need to think like a VC
I’ve personally left life-changing $ on the table because I didn't know the right questions to ask
Sharing a partial list below
In Q1 2019, 39% of Stripe's hiring was outside Bay Area and Seattle. Last quarter, it was 74%. I think the rate at which tech industry is going global is still under-appreciated, and that this will be a big tailwind for the world over the next decade.
I wrote the most extensive integrations & partnerships guide for PMs online.
Here's the link to a quick introduction video about this article series: https://t.co/DD2iP1Rfz8
Link to the article: https://t.co/2LprjUxqUe
@johncutlefish@NotionHQ Offline-first: OneNote.
I've been using it to organize my life for the past 10 years! Unfortunately, MS dumbed down the product drastically two years ago, but still a powerful tool.
Cloud-first: Asana, Evernote, and Notion are the best imo.
1/ Don’t mistake not having a function (product management) for not having a role (PM) played by a team member. Many folks wore the PM hat in the early days of Stripe without the company having a PM function.
I curated a list of top resources for Technical Product Managers in Platform/ API, Integrations, and Data Science/ AI.
Hope you find it useful and please feel free to contribute :)
https://t.co/vfNU7P3wb1
@clearbanc is one of the most innovative Canadian tech companies, and it's aiming to disrupt venture capital as we know it. I wrote to this article to illustrate my vision for #Clearbanc's dashboard product.
https://t.co/l9j8a3g4El
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