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2016
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How Startup Options and Ownership Work

One of the things that struck me most during our recent pieces on startup employee option plans is how things that impact the value of those options aren’t well understood, even if communicated or known at the onset. Many people reported feelings of a sort of “sticker shock” (or reverse!) on leaving their first…

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Programming Language Rankings: June 2016

With the spring and summer travel schedule drawing to a close, we finally have had time to sit down and run the numbers collected back in June. As always, aside from the fact that we run our own GitHub rankings now, the process used for our bi-annual programming language rankings remains the same as when

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Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top

With an overall DxOMark Mobile score of 89, pixel, the latest Google smartphone, is the highest-rated smartphone camera we have ever tested. Its image quality scores are impressive across the board, but it is particularly strong in providing a very high level of detail from its 12.3MP camera, with relatively low…

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Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

Edit: This post was created 2016 shortly after Instapaper was purchased by Pinterest. As part of the acquisition, Pinterest decided to make Instapaper Premium free for everyone. In 2018, Instapaper was spun out into an independent company run by the same people who managed it since 2013. As part of the spinout, we…

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Launching Our Crowdfunding Campaign

Today we kicked off our first crowdfunding campaign with the goal of raising enough funds to cover about one month of our operations - $200,000. That amount covers the operational and engineering staff, the hardware and the software, and general operating expenses needed to securely and reliably issue and manage many…

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AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. August 4, 2023: Updated list of AWS Consulting Partners. We are expanding the AWS footprint again, this time with a new region in Mumbai, India. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai)…

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Fundraising Advice for YC Companies

We’ve modified our fundraising strategy advice to YC founders. In the interest of everyone having the same information, here is the email I sent to the current batch this morning. Founders, As Y Combinator’s prominence has grown in recent years, we’ve seen a flood of new investors who are very focused on investing in…

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YouTube Community goes beyond video

Your bond with your viewers is deep. You've grown up together, laughed together, and done incredible things together, from shifting attitudes about gay rights to volunteering millions of dollars toward important charitable causes. Today, we’re introducing a beta version of a new product to help strengthen the bond…