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  • This is a very rude question, but on this subject of being lean, I looked up your 990, and you pay yourself less than … well, you pay yourself half or a third as much as some of your engineers.

    Yes, and our goal is to pay people as close to Silicon Valley’s salaries as possible, so we can recruit very senior people, knowing that we don’t have equity to offer them. We pay engineers very well. [Leans in performatively toward the phone recording the interview.] If anyone’s looking for a job, we pay very, very well.

    But you pay yourself pretty modestly in the scheme of things.

    I make a very good salary that I’m very happy with.

    That’s pretty cool. But knowing the number would matter.







  • You’re not kidding. Public school in the city.

    There were so many dumb things I had to memorize. Periodic table. Solar system moon and planets. Multiplication table.

    Even worse is the people who see memory as intelligence because of that BS. I remember working at a office and the boss made Steve, the guy who knew 15 digits of Pi, his right hand man. Steve is currently still working there. Congrats Steve your superior memory apparently can’t get you out of your deadend job.