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    1. Bobby Goodlatte‏ @rsg May 12

      I have a friend who is an *incredibly talented* engineer, one of the smartest folks I know. If you were to advise this person on which company is a "sure bet" — e.g. a Facebook circa 2008, Stripe or Uber circa 2011, Coinbase circa 2014... Which startup is it?

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    2. Stephen Hebson‏ @stephenhebson May 12
      Replying to @rsg

      Employees who joined Uber in 2011 were richly rewarded because it was was a smart bet, but not a sure bet. Uber had raised a hot series A, but it was before UberX and immediately after first regulatory cease and desist. Real risk of it going to zero when they joined.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Conor L. Myhrvold  🐘‏ @conormyhrvold May 12
      Replying to @stephenhebson @rsg

      Yeah if you had to look at a sweet spot of inflection for us it'd probably be within a year of Summer 2013 (when Google Ventures round valued Uber @ $3.5B). This is also when it went from a few hundred to 1000+ people overall. Also, Uber hit 100 cities (operated in) April 2014.

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    4. Conor L. Myhrvold  🐘‏ @conormyhrvold May 12
      Replying to @conormyhrvold @stephenhebson @rsg

      Having said that -- early birds at other engineering offices (outside of the Bay Area) still got a great look IMO at a growing company with upside but not as much risk of complete failure. This'd include up till mid 2015.

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      Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks May 12
      Replying to @conormyhrvold @stephenhebson @rsg

      Cutoff date for international offices probably was October 2014 in terms of financial rewards, before valuation jumped from $18b to $41bpic.twitter.com/OVVAt3EwFU

      9:41 PM - 12 May 2021
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        1. Conor L. Myhrvold  🐘‏ @conormyhrvold May 12
          Replying to @thijsniks @stephenhebson @rsg

          Yeah and as I recall RSUs were intro’d by Dec 2014. And so for US based employees the totality of share value upon IPO was considered a one time income realization (for up to 4+ yrs of vesting). Which meant much bigger tax bill vs long term cap gains rate, also blunting upside.

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