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No founders agreement.. what are my options?
Hello,

I've been working on a startup for almost a year. Even though it was co-founders idea/concept and some work had been done previously, product was dormant for years as co-founder couldn't take it to the next level due to other obligations and lack of interest. We've known each other for few years and have worked on other failed concepts in the past.

A year ago, I insisted we pursue that product more seriously as I saw potential so we both rolled up our sleeves and worked on our free time for more than a year keeping our full time jobs. When we started, we verbally agreed to 50/50 split. No founders agreement or vesting schedule. Just an LLC was formed which we both are members.

Long story short, product has now started to generate revenue (not a lot) and we have no employees. Recently, we really don't have good working chemistry. We tend to get into pointless arguments about strategy, direction, features to develop and way things need to be done. Is this normal reality in a startup?

Most recently co-founder scrutinizes every bit of my work and points that it needs to be done differently. Recently as we have started making money, co-founder continues to highlight how important their contribution is to the company's survival every now and then unsolicited and without their contribution the company wouldn't be successful. We're both responsible for building and selling, each of us are focused more on one than the other.

Both of us had no prior leadership experience and know nothing about management or leadership. Perhaps we don't know how to deal with this new found success? What are my options now? Ask co-founder to sign founders agreement on terms verbally agreed upon? Probably wouldn't agree and get suspicious. Lawyer up which may be counter productive due to cost/benefit.

Not asking for legal advice but I'm hoping some of you had similar unfortunate experience and have some insight to share.

Thank you!
So, there are a couple possible originators of that quote...
1 - Marx, who, obviously, was a Communist, in which case your statement is wrong
2 - Joseph Smith, who founded a classless commune. I think that invalidates your comment as well.

Is there someone else who you are thinking of as an originator who was "anything but a communist" as you put it? I'm more than willing to listen if there is.
Big story and all but they could have come up with a more descriptive title.

For a moment I wondered why Travis Kalanick playing with matches was on the front page.
Which also reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9193521
Do you think those articles about conditions in the warehouses are lying ? If so, why ?

What I mean to say is, the odds of those conditions being either unintentional or just local aberrations seems rather small given the widespread articles about it from around the world. Germany, UK, US, ... everywhere workers are complaining about things like sick people getting fired, mandatory unpaid overtime, constant tracking of everything, ...
Manhattan outlawed rooftop landings and takeoffs after 9/11.
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I think the point is that inside Google, some people think of themselves as impostors. Yes, it's a general term.
I had an issue as well, but realized the Chrome extension 'Disable HTML5 Autoplay' was the culprit.
While following this thread I found your comment initially jarring, because in my mind I was thinking of the ATA protocol and not databases. And it appears that neither are good examples.

Perhaps not the best reference, but this Wikipedia page provides some examples as well as some info on the appropriateness of use that I found interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)
We are using Infiniband in Socorro. We just established 10Gb ethernet from Charlottesville to Socorro last week. The sites with instruments typically are a little ahead of the main office in terms of connectivity.
Leaders are willing to take a 100x salary compared to their line employees because they know they can hustle hard enough to live up to the expectations.

I'm very excited to see the helmet cam video of Jeff Bezos serving a customary 8-10-12-14 hour shift at the Dallas Amazon Fulfillment Center and walk out with a smile. Can you do what you ask of others? That's leadership.

No, really. Principles not tested in the fire mean nothing (i.e. "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg"). I know how much grinding I put in and I'd be happy to strap a Fitbit to Bezos and run a day shift side by side.

Dogfooding is a principle I'll never abandon.
Do these leadership or company principles ever truly have any effect on employees or products? I've seen them thrown around at my company on a few occasions, but they never feel like they drive much beyond trying to be one of those gaudy motivational posters.
Yep, I had to do a bit of fuddling around with DateComponents and it was painful.
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I just assumed the Fit would be on this list without even clicking. Truly a diamond in the rough.
D3D has always been a low-level API and D3D9 is no exception. The D3D9 just supported really simple hardware where pixels were pushed through a rigid pipeline one primitive at a time.

Interestingly, Xbox 360 was already beyond DX9, it had real shader units and shader stages (i.e. the same unit could execute both pixel and vertex shader instructions) and even ability to write data back from a shader (if you wanted to use shader to process non-pixel data on the DX9-level hardware you still had to write the output as pixels because the color/depth buffer was the only output of a shader). So X360's graphics library extended DX9 a lot to support that hardware.
> Sadly, academia is increasingly in the role of independently re-discovering what has been known for 10-20 years but treated as a secret.

This has been true of network programming for a long time as well. Private companies find novel ways of switching and routing packets, reducing latency, etc. and academia is left to pick up the pieces.
They have DCTs now too.
It offers a degree of control unparalleled by any auto system, for those who just don't want from A to B. Sensations from the gearbox and the engine are more direct (albeit gas pedal nowadays is no longer...).

> it is not worth the pure agony of traffic jams

You just don't notice if you don't want to. It's second nature.

> pray the person isn't too close behind you

true, but never had an issue with this

> Add in hills and snow for more "fun."

This is a non-issue for anyone that likes it, and has been driving more than a month.
Come on dude, this is just embarrassing. Amazon has created very real value for a wide variety of customers and for shareholders.

Off the top of my head:
- Amazon online shopping
- AWS
- Kindle e-reader
- Alexa

I do not work for Amazon, but I do live in Seattle and see thousands of Amazon employees walking around SLU at lunch time. They generally appear happy. Im sure there's terrible exceptions amongst the many thousands, but I do not understand this hyperbolic condemnation in your comment.
The only Land Cruiser sold now is based on the 4Runner, and is meant as a luxury vehicle. The 80 series was the last rugged Land Cruiser (with a solid front axle) sold here, and even that only had an automatic.
Lyft desperately needs to expand the list of cities they serve. I'm in Houston, the fourth largest city in the US, and for several years Uber has operated here but Lyft still doesn't.
In all integrity I did not.
Another element is that a monopolistic institution can often afford to wait until expiration of any promising patents and that appears to be a factor in this case as well:

At Retractable, "Shaw still isn’t any closer to breaking into the hospital market, and in the meantime the life on his patents is dwindling."

"So he has partnered with Chinese companies, which put up money to build assembly lines in China in return for permission to produce his syringes for the Chinese market. When his patents do run out, the Chinese manufacturers will be the ones poised to bring his technology to the world market, meaning all the jobs and economic benefits that could have gone to the local residents will instead go to the people of Gansu Province."

http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust-2010/dirty-...
Ever tried to get an automatic transmission car out of being stuck in the snow? ;)
Having worked in AWS Data Centres in Australia and India, I'm curious to know why you think the average DC technician leaves after 9 months?

Gotta love a work-life balance that forces you to work weekends and public holidays!

The culture _IS_ the issue at Amazon - you either learn to put up with the BS metrics your managers push down your throat or you leave for somewhere that treats you like a human being.
It is no fun, auto or manual. IMHO, if you truly enjoy driving to choose a stick, you don't get yourself in the situation of 2h daily jam commute.
Or exercise true parking control.
This is silly. The pay is really good, we have nothing to complain about. And everyone is responsible for managing their own work life balance. If a team is pushing you too hard, find a team that you can handle. It's a big company. It can only get to you if you let it.
To me, they've gotten to be the left's response to Breitbart. (Yea I realize I'm going to catch a lot for flack for that. However, columnist/opinion writers for the guardian have been advocating for violence against men and quite a few concerning things)
This is not true of unroll. From the blog, "I can't stress enough the importance of your privacy. We never, ever release personal data about you. All data is completely anonymous and related to purchases only. To get a sense of what this data looks like and how it is used, check out the Slice Intelligence blog.". So they are the same as Google.

At the end of the day, nobody outside the company truly knows if either of them sell identifiable information.
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> Don't do business in the EU if you don't intend to respect the laws.

A lot of Japanese sites IP-ban foreigners so they don't have to deal with them. I always figured, why not leave the site open for everyone but not officially support them? I guess putting technical measures in place prevents having your assets seized, or being sued or arrested when you step foot there.

If an EU customer with data retention laws uses a VPN to bypass an IP-block(and pays with bitcoin or something), would you still be subject to their laws? Or would the attempt to block them be sufficient legally?
You are correct about not noticing... at least until you get an automatic or an EV. Then you realize what you didn't notice you suddenly appreciate being gone.
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What video are you referring to?
C++'s equivalent is std::chrono::time_point, which seems like a much better name. A "point in time" is not obviously something a time zone would be attached to.
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they forgot one principle.

* Work like a slave.
Alas, no.

> BBC iPlayer only works in the UK.

> Sorry, it’s due to rights issues.
About jobs？
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> Paying for a product doesn't guarantee your privacy and using a free product doesn't mean your privacy is being violated.

While what you say is logical, it gets scary pretty quickly. What about uber? What about airbnb? Or worse, what about paypal, intuit, wells fargo?

I propose a simple thought experiment as a band-aid. If we can't beat them, we must join them. Every company that collects information about me, must disclose the said information to me. Failure to disclose in a reasonable time frame should result in an automatic fine worth 100x minimum wage per hour every hour after the end of the reasonable time frame. Of course, we'd need very strong whistle blower protection. This would be a terrible idea because if it works (and I doubt it), it will have a huge chilling effect on small businesses. Responding to all the requests would put them out of business.

I don't know what the solution could be... but I know educating people is difficult especially when the people don't want to be educated.
Yes, I can understand the desire to die on the "but the term as used correctly is what we want" hill. The far more pertinent fact is that just calling it 'the free market' allows others to advance their own concepts under the same guise (there's no regulators nor 'false advertising' when it comes to terminology differences) and you end up getting screwed.

Call it competition; refer to the literal changes it entails; use strong examples like the one above about safer needles. (My go-to was always airless tires till now; I'm sure we could compile a list of technology advancements we're sitting on but haven't adopted because of our LSC society.)
Not against a CVT.
User reviews, controlled routes, and reporting seem like much better incentives to keep customers happy than a bunch of drivers who can leave the meter off, drive you all around racking up the fee, and giving you no recourse if you are unsatisfied or taken advantage of.
At Amazon they are like a religion. I don't know if every group is like that, but someone very close to me works there and they tell me those leadership principles are a part of daily work and are explicitly mentioned in day-to-day activities. Amazon's leadership principles are also used during performance reviews, and to evaluate candidates in interviews.
It depends on how they're implemented. At my previous company, there was a small list of principles posted on the wall, such as, "make each other better," "show integrity." I was astonished one day when I realized that I had seen several people at different levels of the company actually try to make each other better. It inspired me, personally, and made me glad to work at that company.

Famously, IBM used to have their priorities:

1) Customers first
2) Employees second
3) Stock holders third

That's something that the CEO needs to take the lead on. When IBM has followed that, they have done really well (and you can see evidence of it in the dedication of Mythical Man Month)

All that said, this particular list of principles looks like so much pablum. It's too long and unfocused to be really useful, and I can't see it having much affect. My guess is that Amazon is having trouble finding people to hire lately, and that's why they keep coming up with experiments like this (another example is their foray into 4-day work weeks)
All that does is ensure that only the largest companies, who can eat losses, are the ones that innovate on hard technologies.

Some things have no precedent in the market and I sure don't want those companies with out sized power already to be the only ones that can exploit it.
He's not arguing for perfect, he's arguing for sustainable.

No system of regulations you build won't eventually be corrupted because (exactly as he says) there exists no neutral desireless arbiters in our world to enforce them.

No system of regulations you build WON'T get you back here eventually. [0]

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=2It2HRGGtCk
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>Would it be crazy to say sitting on exploits is effectively "inserting a backdoor"

That seems intentionally dishonest, no? If I disagree with a position I'm not justified in intentionally misrepresenting it because I feel morally correct. Unless you're alleging that these vulnerabilities were intentionally placed there, I don't understand why you'd feel the need to say that. Worrying about the effects of stockpiling vulnerabilities seems like a defensible position in and of itself.
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So how much do they pay for this kind of job? And how much latitude are you given as a "leader"? Is it all talk or are they serious about this? I don't really care if I can buy a private jet but I will put in a lot of hours if that means I get to live a life never caring about money (> 200k a year).

I've seen this said before in other companies ("we want leaders") but when it's time to put some resources into X or Y project, things slow down really fast...
I love my manual tramsission but traffic is hellish on long drives. If my daily commute was in traffic (like many parts of LA and other major cities), then I definitely wouldn't want an manual for that.

But yeah, I do love my stick shift. Now that I know how to, I especially love driving on hills. Nothing like shifting through the gears on a windy mountain road. And for traffic on hills you quickly learn to use the handbrake so that you don't roll back at all.
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I assume you are not speaking about MXNet.jl and TensorFlow.jl, which are really good, and in some ways, even better than the Python wrappers for those libraries.

There are several pure Julia DL frameworks - Mocha.jl, KNet.jl and Merlin.jl. What will make things really exciting is native GPU codegen, which has recently landed in Julia, but will take some time to stabilize and make its way into these packages.

We do have a deep learning workshop and a GPU workshop in this year's JuliaCon covering the state of the art and the way forward.
It's not about you blocking them or not blocking them. It's simply about respecting the rights of your users. If you feel that taking users data without giving them the option to ask for you to delete it needs laws that can and will be enforced then you can see why our industry has a bad reputation when it comes to managing end user data.

This sort of behavior is exactly why the industry is no longer self-regulating but is now forcibly regulated in the EU. And soon to be much more forcibly regulated, come 2018 the new version of the DPD will come into effect which has much more teeth because there are still plenty of companies that are trying to evade their responsibilities. For instance, from then on, if you have been breached you will be required by law to report the breach.

So, be nice to your users, respect their data and try to be better than your competitors rather than to find ways in which you can creatively evade legislation that is especially meant to apply to you and your customers.
On EDx you can find a cybersecurity economics course by Ross Anderson and other experts in the field.

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>did they not understand what was happening or were their capitalist values comfortable in allowing it ?

The latter I imagine. The Democratic Party is a firmly neoliberal institution as it is, but they're especially wooed by anything associated with "tech." It's like dangling keys in front of a baby. If corporations claim that they're hiring the best/brightest talent that simply can't be found elsewhere, then who is a mere politician to question that?
Licensing the patent would further monopolize the syringe market. Her community would be better off if they had been permitted to manufacture and sell the product.
Less true maybe, but I think you still can do better.
You shouldn't really need to worry about people behind you, there are plenty of ways to get the car started without losing ground. In the case of traffic, it's far better to just let the car roll around in 1st or 2nd and let the gap between you and the next car grow, you don't have to always be nose to bumper. I usually take back roads anyway around peak hour though and as I understand it, traffic in AUS is no where near as bad as a lot of US cities.
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Yes and no. There are multiple offices in the Bay Area including three in engineering offices in San Francisco. Most offices/floors have a lot more space and good working conditions. However where that photo was taken, conditions are probably the tightest of all because it's the headquarters location on one of the two main floors. These two floors are where engineers need the greatest contact with other non-technical teams. It goes through periods of being cramped due to business growth and as the company acquires more office space, conditions get better again. This is not uncommon at any company in San Francisco when you've grown headcount and are waiting for more office space to decompress. I've seen similar conditions when visiting friends at other companies experiencing high growth.

I work on one of these two floors, and have worked at all three SF engineering offices on three different teams since joining 3 years ago. I would say those are not typical conditions for most engineering teams, but are more common if you work on a team that needs to be close to the non-technical areas in the company.

That all said, you can work wherever you want. Sometimes I work at my desk with headphones and sometimes I find a quiet place on that floor or one of the other floors. There are no lack of quiet spaces. It's also easy to work from home one to two days a week if you want. My team has our own no meetings day and some team members work from home that day (but typically do so to save themselves the commute).

I won't go into any details on what I work to maintain my anonymity but I have no problem getting serious work done and I work on one of the largest scale and most critical pieces of infrastructure.
All companies must have basic ethics. It's a given that nobody reads EULA, privacy & terms documents. Given that, each company must take the responsibility to explain to the customer what it knows will be objectionable. For example, if Lyft sold me travel information to 3rd parties, I expect them to tell me this up front and not hide this behind some legalese.
Ill smile a whole 14 hour shift at some warehouse if im a billionaire who only does this once or twice for pr.
I'm being a touch quarrelsome, but wouldn't a data center job often inherently require working on weekends and holidays? Curious here about the nature of data center jobs in general and in what specific ways Amazon would be worse than normal (if any).
Did people really sign up for this service without knowing it was being used to data mine? If so, maybe you should sit back and think about how you use the web.

Companies have to make money, and it's free, so it should be assumed they are mining it.

Also, stop being idiots and saying that they are sending your receipts. As far as we know they aren't. They are sending aggregate numbers. Just like the dozen other free services you're probably using right now.
> For ISPs the problem is that companies tend to expand.

Not cooperatives. Co-ops tend to focus on their region, and have neither a reason to push into other territories, nor usually the foothold to do so as easily as in their own region.

"Farming out" your lines to outsiders then deciding that you don't want further construction efforts because 'the cables are already there' - effectively giving them a monopoly over your region - is what got us into this mess in the first place.
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> Honestly, they signed up users for a _completely_ different service and monetize by mining gmail data.

That is also in contravention of the EU DPD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive

Specifically, point 2: Purpose.
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I mean, they have also had mechanical automatic transmissions since the 70's at least.