Join groups of interest, participate in those groups, and talk to the other people who are there. For example, I moved to a new city where I knew zero people. I'm into exercise, so I joined a crossfit gym, and I talked to the other people there. A handful of them became friends who subsequently invited me to do a triathlon with them. Then I joined a triathlon club, and I went to the weekly training sessions and spoke to the other people who were there. A handful of those people also became my friends. That initial interest (crossfit, triathlon) was enough to spark conversation, and then it's easy to find out what else we might have in common / see if our personalities gel, and then friendship blossoms.
Also the same CEO who joined Coinbase's board last year, and has seemingly fallen down the crypto rabbit hole. Maybe he's lost a bit of focus on Shopify.
"I remember the days when the internet was vast, when there seemed to be more places to go than anyone could ever visit and infinite things to read. What you saw was not determined by some highly protected coded algorithm that lives somewhere in the cloud. You could just go out and find it."
The internet is still vast. People just choose to congregate and use the same handful of apps. People are choosing not to go out and find it. Most people are also choosing not to go out and create it. It's a people problem, not a tech problem, in my opinion.
Salary through the end of August is a pretty nice severance. Still unfortunate for those laid off, but this might be the most generous package I've seen so far.
Completely anecdotal but I was in Japan (mostly Tokyo but some surrounding cities as well) last week, and I saw so many young Japanese families with babies and toddlers I was thinking to myself "are those population headlines for real!?" I do believe the data, but I was a bit surprised by the number of babies I saw due to all the headlines I had read beforehand.
The thing about SF is that every neighborhood has its own "downtown" in the form a primary commercial street with coffee shops, grocery stores, small businesses, etc i.e. everything someone working from home might need. Also, nearly every neighborhood has at least one park that is accessible and walkable. When people say "downtown SF" they're referring to the eastern/northeastern part of the city with all of the office buildings which is ironically the part of the city with the worst selection of coffee shops, food, parks, etc. so there is really close to zero reason for people to want to be there. Working from home in NOPA, Inner Richmond, Haight, Duboce, Noe, etc etc is quite nice and also very walkable and convenient.
Some people seem to be overthinking this by a long shot. If you have a company you want to build, then it's always the right time to start. The greater economy will always have influence both positive and negative. But considering this, it's probably better to start in a "bad economy" than a "good economy" assuming it's a strong business idea that you can keep alive and grow until the economy becomes "good" again, and then you can exit into the good environment rather than starting when things are rosy and wanting/needing to exit when things inevitably turn south again.
I know very little about Ethereum, but if I wanted to develop some application on top of it, would I still need to write Solidity or are there ways around that language now?
The bottom quartile at some of these companies could still easily be in the top decile at many other companies. Unfortunately every company thinks they need, and are deserving of "Top Talent".
Categorically NO - this isn't even a cute title. He billed roughly $120k for roughly a month of work that involved sitting in a temperate room, reading documents, and talking to people for hours per day - this is likely one of the best jobs in corporate America.
It has long been a tradition of Wall Street to hire Ivy grads with name-your-social-studies major (History, Government, English, Philosophy) into investment banking analyst roles. These kids then proceed to live in Excel and Powerpoint for 2+ years. They get hired for the reasons that the parent commenter stated. It's different out here in the tech/startup world - you truly need the skillset beforehand to step into the role, but I imagine there are plenty of other industries similar to Wall St where they just want someone young and smart who they can train to do the job. The core curriculum gets thrown out the window - it's about time management, self motivation to be successful, smart enough to deal with ambiguity, etc.
I don't think it's that straightforward. Remote US employees are not (in any scenario I've witnessed or been part of) equivalent to Remote Low-income Country employees. A person who previously worked in Snap's LA office who relocated to, say Scottsdale, is likely still going to be a much more valuable employee than an offshore person.
Who are (or who do you expect) to be your primary core of users/customers? I imagine professional trading firms would be your most profitable customers, but it seems targeted or at least designed for the meme stonk day trader? Just trying to understand who actually has this problem that Kalshi is trying to solve.