oncethere

Interesting. Not sure I'd ever use it, but I wonder what the story is behind the data warehouses all having it but not postgres. Must be only used for data type queries.

Is it hard in practice to figure out who the anonymous ids are? I'm used to just having Segment identify calls.

Thanks for the pointer to the article!

Yeah, that's a good point. The PM is sometimes pretty constrained by the business. Maybe it's just a grass is greener thing. Have you been anywhere where the eng team had some say in what they make?

Haha. Yes, I do that potentially a bit too much. It always feels like pulling teeth -- like the official process doesn't have room for that kind of back and forth. For example, in scrum, the product owner is meant to have that conversation, not the engineers.

Does anyone else feel this way? Curious about your experience and what works for you. I know lots of engineers that are super happy working against solid requirements.

I agree that the math is very poor for early employees. I went through the best case scenario and it still wasn't worth it.

I joined a startup just after their series A. I was offered what they said was a lot of equity (1/2000 of the company). I ended up with the best case scenario: it grew like crazy and 8 years later went public at a multi-billion dollar valuation. My shares had gone up more than 100x.

My payout was good, but financially not worth it. The company raised a bunch along the way (I stopped counting after series G) so I got diluted a fair bit. I also took a lower than market salary for the time I spent there (which was of course justified by the fact the company was growing so fast and people were jumping to hop on a rocket ship).

I ended up with low 7 figures, which, yes, is amazing, but I actually would have had more at any FAANG company during that same period.

So who really got paid? The founders and the executive team (no matter when they joined). It was a good experience, but startups, financially, are not a great move.

It's interesting to see how PG can be configured, but why not just use a real warehouse like Snowflake?

Also, do you have any numbers on how PG performs once it's configured?

YC is probably the easiest way to get VCs to notice you. But given how selective it is, that could be tougher than traction.

Maybe throwing out a third then -- get people in your network to introduce you to VCs. Also hard, but startups just aren't easy I guess.