The Quasi Interview - What would you like to know?

[Josef Kuminski]

WWAW speech making you a white supremacist?

 

[quasi101]

She show asshole on there?

carrie? yeah shes had her on the podcast

hammmmbeeeeerger

 

[Sue Lightning]

If not in this thread yet: Straight up, who has paid both debts?

He's implied the secret benefactor did not conceal their identity and transferred the moola to Pawlowski directly.

We know it's Lynne but it'd be nice to have confirmation. And knowledge of any discussions behind the scenes on that fateful August day when Patrick's life was saved from jail.

I think if the SFWA paid (and we assume they wanted to keep it a secret) we’d see the money go from them to Pats banks and then from Pats banks to Quasi. There’d be no reason for them to get Nikki involved because she wasn’t even a plaintiff in the lolsuit.

If it were Lynne we would see what we saw: The money is transferred from Lynne to Nikki. From Nikki it goes to Quasi. No reason for Lynne to wire it to Patrick who then has a chance of blowing it on Mexican vacations and $2000 phones.

 

[guest]

wwawd season 1 norma?

Next seasons were huge disappointment tho

 

[PorqueDealer]

Will our boy @Daddy Warbucks have the exclusive on the upcoming Quasimentary
Porsalin is busy interviewing someone who read a pat tweet in 2015
Beige is busy with HRT

 

[Stent]

You're giving away all the good stuff! Now nobody is going to like, subscribe and let me know their thoughts in the comments below!

 

[BakersfieldChimp]

Will our boy @Daddy Warbucks have the exclusive on the upcoming Quasimentary
Porsalin is busy interviewing someone who read a pat tweet in 2015
Beige is busy with HRT

Knowing Cryptic Web Chronicles they'll have this extensively covered by then end of next week. I'm all in wit da CWC, tbphwy.

 

[BUBBLER]

What’s your actual race?

@quasi101 , I KNOW YOU SAW MY QUESTION MOTHERFUCKER!!!




Anywho, the answer is Asian-ish

 

[quasi101]

@quasi101 , I KNOW YOU SAW MY QUESTION MOTHERFUCKER!!!




Anywho, the answer is Asian-ish

the real answer isn't funny

 

[Stent]

the real answer isn't funny

Unusual for you.

 

[quasi101]

Unusual for you.

thank you. i don't understand sarcasm. nice compliment, stupid.

 

[Jen_Tomlinson]

@quasi101 cant read every single answer but what was the final straw where you said fuck it I’m gone

 

[UnPRePared]

@quasi101 , will you ever come to my one of my shows?

I'd appreciate if you yelled out "Your mom's box!"


Because I will then have you tossed, how dare you try to out me, you naan baking cunt.




I'm just kidding, buddy, I'll mutter a very low "linger longer" to ya, just to keep it all Inside.

 

[Sue Lightning]

@quasi101 can you speculate on why fatty didn’t show up to the debtors exam and your reaction to all that?

Oh also how do I word this so you can answer it..regarding the contempt, would you have seriously pursued it had fatty not paid and tried to fight? And to what extent?

^ I guess a better way to phrase that is what made you say Ok fuck it contempt time

 

[kingship75]

@quasi101 , will you ever come to my one of my shows?

I'd appreciate if you yelled out "Your mom's box!"


Because I will then have you tossed, how dare you try to out me, you naan baking cunt.




I'm just kidding, buddy, I'll mutter a very low "linger longer" to ya, just to keep it all Inside.

Then you break out into Mama after dedicating it to Lynne.

 

[General Fatton]

Lets keep it simple: What was the biggest misconception we all had that you werent able to clarify until now? What has made you bit your tongue all these years that you couldnt yell "NO YOU FUCKING RETARDS, ITS NOT X, ITS Y!!!"

 

[Dog Eater]

Its a decent idea early in your career , but make sure you're aware of the cons. If you go real early, pre-series a , you'll make no money basically, but you should get founder level ownership or options. I think series A is the sweet spot. You'll get enough in stock if you are in as the first 30 or so to make a lot of money if you have a liquidation event (ipo, purchase or merger) and you'll only take about a 15-20% pay cut. Assuming a 200k senior role, you’d be looking at about 170k. Over 5 years that’s a 150k difference (30k*5)

Going through a hypothetical ipo. Lets say you get an offer for a series A and they give you 0.1% ownership. The CAP table will allocate something like 10-20% for the employee pool and 20% for the VCs (leaving 60% for founders maintaining ownership).

For a basic tech startup now we’ll use 10mil funding round because the numbers are easier. So that's a 60mil post money valuation (10/0.2 =50 +10).
Our employee get 0.1% from the 60mil valuation so they are offered options valued at 60k (60mil *0.001). If the strike price is $0.20 / share the employee offer would be 300k options vested over 5 years.

We’ll use a basic 2-4x growth each round and an IPO exit at round D. using 3x each round as the average.

B round gives us a 180mil valuation and a fmv of $0.60. We’ll assume a 2/5 vest , so the options here are 60k*2 = 120k. And the value is at 120k*0.6 = $72,000.

C round gives us a 540 mil valuation (180*3) , a fmv of $1.80 and we’ll vest 3 years. That’s 180k options at $1.80 = $324,000. You can see where C round is when you start to really get value.

We’ll exit at round D. Another 3x and the company valuation is at 1.62 billion. The fmv is now $5.40. We’ll ipo there just for simplicity (too low for a realistic ipo but the numbers were easier this way). You’ve fully vested here at 5 years and all 300k options. So your option values are at 1.620 million now. However a tech ipo will probably be around 15-30, so lets say $20. Your options are worth 6mil then (300k*20).

You’ll have been diluted to death but unless you care about ownership it doesn’t really affect you too much. It affects dividends and some other shit, but that's above my pay grade.

But this is just a gamble obviously. More often than not series A startups fail. As you progress in rounds the risk is lower but so is the equity compensation. They make up for this by giving you market rates around b or c round. There’s also the risk you never have a liquidation event. In that case you’ve lost out on the lower salary. If you are just starting your career , I think this is made up for in two ways.
1. you get more senior experience and resume stuffers than you would in a bigger or public company
2. If your company is very profitable but never goes ipo or some other event, you’ll have seniority and will likely make up the missed salary by making more in the middle of your career.

Make sure to try to negotiate stock allocation during each round. Sometimes they let you buy it or if you are senior enough you get some for free. If they tell you they are strapped for cash when raises or bonuses come, make sure to tell them you’re taking a pay cut and they are not strapped for “options”.



Thanks for confirming you’re Dan Mulllen.

 

[NoBacon]

I won't really say too much at this point as to not doxx myself too much. but what I would recommend in general non technically is to find the aspect you actually like doing. Some people hate vague requirements. They need process and structure. They get frustrated when shit doesnt work. They are a perfectionist and want to iron out every bug. Work for a big mature company.

If you want low stress easy hours, who gives a shit requirements. Work in the public sector. State universities, Healthcare companies. There's so much bureaucracy you barely have to work ever. You'll be waiting on approvals all the tiem.vif that doesn't bore you then that would be the job.

Do you like to hack things together to just et it working, jump from project to project. Shift priorities daily. If working on something for months that gets abandoned and never to production doesn't bother you then early stage startup is for you.

late stage startup is kind of a happy medium, you don't get greenfield like series a , bit you don't have 40 years of process like Microsoft would.

There's more but you get the idea. The other thing is the job itself. Do you like perfecting small changes, having you work be customer facing, more on product changes etc. Work on the front end or work in product.

Like working with customers but hate sales? Work customer success. Lile support. Work In operations. Like building shit and upgrades don't annoy you ? Work platform. Like programming but you suck at it and also like building tools and scripts, work devops.

Do you like tinkering, tuning, scaling and capacity planning. As well as monitoring and tooling , go for sre.

Is there a long term market for a 30 something who’s spent the last 5 years essentially becoming an integration architect for a heinous archaic messaging format EDIFACT?

I’m gonna get snapped up any day by the Bosch R&D center right? Right??

 

[guest]

Interview drops (gay) Easter weekend. Sunday 8pm PST (felony time initials).
Reveal will be released here as an mp3 and a stream of it YT. No video footage (I'm into footage lately ) obviously. Chat will be open.

Our links have yet to reveal themselves.

Be there or be square. Are we square?!

(Dan, references)

Is this fake?

No.

Or is it?

I guess it's fake. Well, ya got me.

 

[Stent]

I guess it's fake. Well, ya got me.

Quasi bailed at the last minute. And he raped me.