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The reconciliation bill and the tech worker

If you haven’t been keeping up with the news, Biden’s infrastructure bill has been slowly progressing (or not) through the legislative…

Sep 30, 2021

The reconciliation bill and the tech worker

Sep 30, 2021

Why early exercise matters more in today’s venture funding climate

If your company allows early exercise, it makes things really interesting as an employee with a chunk of options. The effect is that you…

Sep 15, 2021

Why early exercise matters more in today’s venture funding climate

Sep 15, 2021

Who’s really using dbt?

And is Analytics Engineering really that different from Data EngineerinG

Aug 18, 2021

Who’s really using dbt?

Aug 18, 2021

Should a non-founder buy startup stock with an IRA?

After I posted an article about Peter Thiel’s $5B Roth IRA a couple weeks ago, I had a handful of readers reach out to me asking if this…

Jul 14, 2021

Jul 14, 2021

My (career) investment thesis on dbt Labs

Data has been the common theme throughout my career. I’ve spent the vast majority of the past decade working for various data…

Jul 7, 2021

My (career) investment thesis on dbt Labs

Jul 7, 2021

Peter Thiel and his billion dollar Roth tax shelter

My wife and I are avid readers of Matt Levine’s Money Stuff newsletter (if you’re not subscribed to that, and you generally like the things…

Jul 1, 2021

Jul 1, 2021

Deciding where to park a stash of cash

I’ve been working on building out a right-sized emergency fund over the last couple years, and one of the questions I find myself…

Jun 9, 2021

Deciding where to park a stash of cash

Jun 9, 2021

Edge cases when starting around a funding round: the 100K ISO limit

There are a lot of rapid-fire, huge funding rounds happening right now. Capital is flowing at historically low prices, huge rounds are…

May 19, 2021

Edge cases when starting around a funding round: the 100K ISO limit

May 19, 2021

How not to get burned by rising strike prices in today’s startup job markets

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May 13, 2021

How not to get burned by rising strike prices in today’s startup job markets

May 13, 2021

When does open-source make sense?

I was having a discussion with a friend recently, who was inquiring about some of my philosophies on open-source and asked: “when does…

May 5, 2021

When does open-source make sense?

May 5, 2021

Natty (Jon Natkins)

Natty (Jon Natkins)

Product guy interested in security, data infra, analytics, and finance. Currently at Fishtown, ex-Cloudera/Vertica/StreamSets. My thoughts are semi-structured.

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