In regards to #2: Does the company have to provide you with its last valuation? Can they force you to provide your own third party company valuation?

If you sell, they have to provide the value for tax reporting purposes.

A few weeks back I asked Scott Gu if there were any plans for Visual Studio on OSX/Linux and the answer was no. He mentioned they're focusing on Visual Studio Online, though I don't know if that means some sort of online IDE.

Is that $185,000 per evaluation for a gTLD? Are there other costs involved?

That's an mazing story. He starts to talk about their supplies being stolen around 45:00 but it's worth it to watch the entire video.

Unfortunately I barely missed the live jump. Will a recorded video be posted, or is there one already available?

Yes, the video will be posted youtube.com/redbull in the next few hours.

Out of curiosity is there anything like this for Ruby?

Can you create subscriptions with Stripe on the fly? My wife runs a subscription business but pricing is based on the products the person chooses so my subscription rate is always variable. When I first looked at Stripe it seemed like I had to have subscription + prices created beforehand.

Yup, we have an API to create plans - https://stripe.com/docs/api#plans

They have an API to create new subscriptions on the fly yes. It's very easy. I have a similar situation. I used the API to create about 150 subscription plans that cover all my alternatives.

I wonder how a progsysadmin would compare to the desingineer. I'd imagine it's easier to find a progsysadmin just from my own experience. I've had a few jobs where I was responsible for both the programming and system administration, in small companies of course.

That's more complicated due to the history of programming and sysadmin being more closely intertwined, as you discovered. The first 20 years of Unix were the "systems programmer" domain, having followed the "sales engineer" era of the 60s (speaking roughly here) after the burgeoning computer industry's customer relations functions started getting specialized and split off from nerds. There were many, many more of you 30 years ago.

Congrats! How did you manage the graphics? Was it outsourced, did you hire someone? Can you give any details? I've built a few apps but I'm always lacking on the design side.

So I was the design guy. My partner Ben did all the coding. For the graphics, I didn't necessarily start from scratch. A lot of it was stock, but heavily modified to the point that you probably wouldn't recognize some of it.

A friend of mine owns a small trucking business and was bidding on a contract for freight services for a university. Upon winning the bid they notified him that he had to get BBB accreditation in order to be awarded the contract.