Natty (Jon Natkins) – Medium

Natty (Jon Natkins)

Natty (Jon Natkins)

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…

9 min readSep 30, 2021

--

The reconciliation bill and the tech worker

--

Natty (Jon Natkins)

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…

10 min readSep 15, 2021

--

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

--

Natty (Jon Natkins)

Who’s really using dbt?

And is Analytics Engineering really that different from Data EngineerinG

9 min readAug 18, 2021

--

Who’s really using dbt?

--

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…

7 min readJul 14, 2021

--

--

Natty (Jon Natkins)

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…

10 min readJul 7, 2021

--

My (career) investment thesis on dbt Labs

--

Natty (Jon Natkins)

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…

9 min readJul 1, 2021

--

--

Natty (Jon Natkins)

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…

8 min readJun 9, 2021

--

Deciding where to park a stash of cash

--

Natty (Jon Natkins)

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…

7 min readMay 19, 2021

--

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

--

Natty (Jon Natkins)

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

Read this story in full for free at my Semi-Structured Substack

9 min readMay 13, 2021

--

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

--

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…

15 min readMay 5, 2021

--

When does open-source make sense?

--

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.

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams