Natty (Jon Natkins)The reconciliation bill and the tech workerIf you haven’t been keeping up with the news, Biden’s infrastructure bill has been slowly progressing (or not) through the legislative…Sep 30, 2021Sep 30, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)Why early exercise matters more in today’s venture funding climateIf 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, 2021Sep 15, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)Who’s really using dbt?And is Analytics Engineering really that different from Data EngineerinGAug 18, 2021Aug 18, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)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, 2021Jul 14, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)My (career) investment thesis on dbt LabsData has been the common theme throughout my career. I’ve spent the vast majority of the past decade working for various data…Jul 7, 2021Jul 7, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)Peter Thiel and his billion dollar Roth tax shelterMy 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, 2021Jul 1, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)Deciding where to park a stash of cashI’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, 2021Jun 9, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)Edge cases when starting around a funding round: the 100K ISO limitThere are a lot of rapid-fire, huge funding rounds happening right now. Capital is flowing at historically low prices, huge rounds are…May 19, 2021May 19, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)How not to get burned by rising strike prices in today’s startup job marketsRead this story in full for free at my Semi-Structured SubstackMay 13, 2021May 13, 2021
Natty (Jon Natkins)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, 2021May 5, 2021