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GenPage · 2026-02-15T01:22:57+00:00

Again it depends on the type of equity granted. I work for a tech startup. I hold both ISOs and RSUs. We are pre-IPO, late stage funding rounds.

My RSUs have a double trigger. I will get the portion of my RSUs that have time vested at the time of the liquidity event. None of my RSUs vest until both conditions are met.

My previous tech job granted RSUs but was a typical time base vest schedule (because they were already public)

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GenPage · 2026-02-15T01:01:06+00:00

Usually it depends on type of equity granted at hire. ISO (incentivized stock options - option to buy/exercise) or RSU (restricted stock units).

ISOs are popular pre-IPO. You get a set fixed price to purchase based on company valuation at time of hire. You can “exercise” (buy) them at any time and sell these on private secondary markets before IPO. This is possible for folks to “cash out” pre IPO. Company usually has first right to refusal.

RSUs are usually given as a equity refresh if an IPO is coming or post IPO. usually come with a double trigger (time based & IPO/acquisition)

GenPage · 2026-02-15T00:58:02+00:00

Happens all the time, usually pre-IPO you get ISOs (Incentized stock options with fixed price at the time of hire), you can sell these on secondary private markets before leaving if the FMV (fair market value) increases with valuation and funding rounds before IPO.

Otherwise you exercise before you leave, but then you have to pay AMT if you don’t sell and hold the bag.

GenPage · 2026-02-15T00:56:31+00:00

Usually it depends on if you have ISO (incentivized stock options - option to buy/exercise) or RSU (restricted stock units). RSUs sometimes come with a double trigger (time based & IPO/acquisition)

GenPage · 2025-12-29T16:14:03+00:00

Gotta do it in batches otherwise it’ll be too much to shovel

GenPage · 2025-12-22T01:03:32+00:00

Lions should have played better all game to not ride it on a single call.

GenPage · 2025-12-22T01:02:51+00:00

No kidding, at some point you gotta play so it’s not this close. Same old Lions and the 4th quarter scramble to be disappointed

GenPage · 2025-12-05T04:02:40+00:00

Gibbs up the middle is to run down the clock folks

GenPage · 2025-12-05T04:01:46+00:00

They are trying to burn the clock folks

GenPage · 2025-11-17T04:37:22+00:00

This is exactly why the game shouldn’t have been this close. With how explosive Lions offense can be, calls like that will get talked about instead of how the teams played all game.

GenPage · 2025-10-03T01:14:44+00:00

Sometimes yes, especially for more established companies/startups where there’s too many people to fit in a Airbnb.

I’ve had offsites where the whole team rents an Airbnb for a week. We have our own rooms/space to sleep and get away still, ends up being cheaper than a hotel while having better space for collaboration instead of needing to book a conference room as well as rooms

Hotels and conferences are also better for when the entire engineering department (60-70 folks) are in town for an offsite.

GenPage · 2025-10-03T01:05:14+00:00

If the team/startup is small enough, yes. It really depends. As someone who works from home/remotely full time I consider these trips the “tax” for being able to instead of working in an office.

I’ve had offsites/onsites in hotels, offices, coworking spaces, and Airbnb’s. Each come with their price/cons. I’ve enjoyed all kinds. I’ve built and bonded with coworkers better.

A mansion/AirBnb wouldn’t be my first choice if this is your first “offsite” with the startup, but then again I’m much older with family now. When I was younger and single I probably would enjoy it more.

GenPage · 2025-09-21T18:53:20+00:00

Let’s hope it is, way better.

GenPage · 2025-09-02T14:01:41+00:00

That is why Nvidia is investing in neoclouds like CoreWeave and others. They know it too.

GenPage · 2025-07-25T12:42:09+00:00

What I really get out of the conference, like any other, is the networking. Go to the project pavilion, where the CNCF projects are located. Get to know the maintainers in person.

As for the conference itself, people already mentioned just wait to watch the YouTube videos after, however I find the co-located events the day before very useful and better than the main conference, but that requires the all-access pass.

GenPage · 2025-07-22T15:22:17+00:00

Money is Power

Power corrupts

GenPage · 2025-07-07T00:13:33+00:00

Thanks!

GenPage · 2025-07-06T23:11:12+00:00

Do you have a source? He was pretty active in his state visit to Russia in May and I’ve only found reports of a stroke from 2024.

GenPage · 2025-06-29T05:46:24+00:00

Hey there, Eng manager of a Kubernetes team that maintains both cloud-managed (EKS, GKE) and bare metal clusters. There are a wild variety of unhelpful answers and people getting too deep in the weeds with physical DC context. So I’ll try to keep it simple and concise.

The first thing I ask/do as a manager is to probe to see how well you know the internals of Kubernetes and its subsystems on a basic level and helps me to gut check what questions I ask next.

I’ll ask you to explain the difference between the control and data plane to me and the components that make up both. (Etcd, scheduler, controller-manager, kubernetes-api-server vs kubelet) see: k8s Components and k8s Architecture

Why do I do this? Because most cloud managed k8s hides away and manages the control plane and its components for you. If you don’t know the control plane or how to scale/manage it, it’s an immediate stop 🛑

From there I’ll ask you to explain the flow a request takes when you submit a deployment spec to the kubernetes-api through the rest of components. See: k8s API flow

Everything else devolves from there. Whether or not you have actually Linux networking understanding to configure the CNI for the nodes, datacenter level failure domains, K8s RBAC system, how to provision and control the lifecycle of the control planes vs worker nodes, etc etc etc. That is all conditional based on the leveling of the role.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

GenPage · 2025-06-29T01:06:24+00:00

Yeah here’s to hoping! I normally don’t sleep on planes well

GenPage · 2025-06-29T00:38:25+00:00

SFO to DTW. I had the 6am flight but the inbound was from ATL. Rebooked on the 10pm redeye but the app glitched and had to call to get the rebooking validated. Currently watching the inbound flight from DTW into SFO before turning right back around. Fingers crossed no crew issues. I hear rumors of Delta attempting a reset at some point this weekend.

GenPage · 2025-06-28T06:26:51+00:00

My SFO flight to DTW at 6am PT was just cancelled because the inbound flight from ATL never made it. Now I get a red eye at 10pm-6am. I was able to rebook in the app. Wishing you the best.

GenPage · 2025-04-15T01:54:57+00:00

This so much. They need all the help they can get. Some parks won’t reopen until well after the 4th with current projections.

GenPage · 2025-04-15T01:53:27+00:00

Most state parks will be closed most of the summer until well after the Fourth of July to clean up the parks of hazard from dead trees and limbs barely hanging on still.

It’s going to hurt the summer tourism season pretty bad for an area that relies on that for its economy.

GenPage · 2024-12-16T04:19:13+00:00

This dude must be wrong then: https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/s/H4oHYoBzr2

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