IIRC, they could correct your bill after the fact.

I used to joke with others that shoplifted items should be retroactively free - as long as you self report after the fact. (Extra useful training data...)

I would avoid this guide. I don't even see mentions about dilution and cap tables, let alone preference and a bunch of other risks.

If you need a solid guide, I usually point at the Holloway Guide To Equity Compensation but I'm annoyed that it looks like they started charging for it (probably still worth both the time and money). The preview is worth checking out. That being said, I think there are a bunch of other aspects that aren't captured.

I was under the impression that founders/management generally don't give any company specific guidance in order to not be on the hook for anything that may be construed as guidance or promises.

Is there already a suitable supply chain for that to happen?

Algae grows ridiculously easily - If there was a market for this (likely one driven by mandates to eliminate methane), you could have thousands of tons of algae within months and millions of tons within years.

It's a staple of coastal people's diets the world over. There's half an aisle of it at the local Seattle-area groceries.

Also, I don't think algae and seaweed is the same thing?

Seaweed is a form of algae.

With the compensation deferral setup (like Ohtani in MLB), I'm curious if the influence of the caps will be eroded.

For some I suspect that it's not the primary goal, but when some investors pull up with an offer in that range it seems irrational not to take it.

Still, seeing as how I don't look at these kinds of images all day it's really hard for me to gauge if the sea floor is littered with false positive images that may seem to be a good match. I could also imagine a true match to also have some other confounding blob attached to it. It'd be nice to have some kind of score to summarize that aspect.

I'm a fan of this mentality. (Though I'd be happier if the government gets a copy of all designs that are mass produced.) I recently had a 10 year old TV die on me and I was 90% sure that I just needed to swap the power supply. If I'd had some more info I could have tested things on my benchtop before trying to track down an identical replacement board. (Though those options were a bit dubious as well.)

> I recently had a 10 year old TV die on me and I was 90% sure that I just needed to swap the power supply.

If it was the power supply and there was no burnt smell, you should have spent 30m replacing all the caps on it. There is very little else in a power supply that dies.

These days it's about finding the labor and the project time. All those extra runs of wire add up to a lot of expensive time. If you're doing a remodel it's also a lot of wall that doesn't need to get ripped up.

I'd imagine that if an assistant was really implemented well, it would bypass all those search ads...

Is that a problem? Having an in with the butler is of plenty of value and could easily be sold.

I kept selling them on this opportunity. The market of APIs front run by intelligence will be even more valuable than ads.

So I built their Business Messaging program to try to get access to those apis.

What took me too long to discover is that an API market of 100% confirmed conversions will be worthy less than an intent market with a 10% or 1% chance. Because you can show more ads across the intent market that aggregates to more revenue than a 100% confirmed transaction being auctioned off. (Specifically because an ad can’t go for more than the cost of the transaction of course, but multiple ads can)

TLDR. Google became the same as the newspaper ads they disrupted. Making more money off the failure of their ads to convert than their successful ones.

At this point, I'm coming around to accepting that something has to be disturbed since it seems (simplified) to be a choice between either planned, somewhat bounded, localized invasiveness or unplanned, weakly bounded, global disturbances/invasiveness...