It analyzes thousands of professional critic reviews to find the best of the best.
I started building this because I adore how metacritic analyzes professional movie/game/tv show reviews and calculates a meta score for each title. In my experience it’s the best way to discover new things to watch or play, and I’ve often wished something like this would exist for when I want to buy a product.
This year, I decided to start building it myself and Criticaster is the result.
For a given product category we collect all professional reviews of a given product, analyze each to assign them a score and then calculate an average critic score.
The goal is to become the most trustworthy source to make product decisions.
Your comment is probably tongue in cheek, but this level of detail is pretty standard for advanced cooking. Serious Eats, Chef Steps or What’s Eating Dan have published loads of recipes backed up by research and accompanied by great graphs.
Thanks for the great questions! Find answers below, let me know if you have any further questions :-)
1. Our issuing partner is Brale.xyz, a US regulated stablecoin company by Ben Milne, the founder of Dwolla. Brale works with partners on their end to invest in US Treasuries. More info here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/brale-and-the-glo-foundat...
On audits: we're working with a big 4 auditor on audit readiness. Our goal is to publish audits regularly and be fully transparent in both our operations and treasury holdings. Brale will publish monthly attestations of the assets backing Glo Dollar, and we will have audit rights over those assets on a periodical basis as well.
2. While US Treasuries indeed have a maturity date, treasuries with a maturity date of up to 3 months are considered a "cash equivalent" because their market is so liquid. Because of this, they can easily be exchanged for cash in the event a lot of people want their cash back at once.
3. Glo's per-dollar impact is low at first. As adoption grows, it ramps up. At scale, we expect to lift 1 person out of extreme poverty per $20,000 of Glo Dollar market cap by generating approximately $480 in interest that we can donate to GiveDirectly. We're not there yet, as we need to ramp up market cap beyond $2m first. More info here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/from-bootstrap-to-high-im...
4. Stablecoins provide actual utility to crypto traders (hence why there are $125B of them in circulation). So our thinking is that we can drive adoption by meeting traders where they are. We also think that Glo Dollar’s philanthropic mission will give it an edge for IRL stablecoin adoption. More on that here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/vision-and-growth-strateg...
Secfi is a VC-backed fintech start-up that helps start-ups and employees better manage equity compensation. We do this by providing shareholders of private companies with liquidity so that they can exercise their options or access capital for personal use. We build technology products that help private company employees make the most of their equity and make more informed decisions. By simplifying their equity compensation, employees can spend more time on things they love doing most. We have offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco.
For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/products/exercise-tax-calculator
An exciting challenge we’re working on next is an exercise planning tool that tells you what you should do with your equity based on your personal. Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and we’re looking to add 10 more people to our Amsterdam product and engineering team. We have a variety of engineering vacancies including DevOps Engineer, frontend and backend Python:
Secfi is a VC-backed fintech start-up that helps start-ups and employees better manage equity compensation. We do this by providing shareholders of private companies with liquidity so that they can exercise their options or access capital for personal use. We build technology products that help private company employees make the most of their equity and make more informed decisions. By simplifying their equity compensation, employees can spend more time on things they love doing most. We have offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco.
For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/products/exercise-tax-calculator
An exciting challenge we’re working on next is an exercise planning tool that tells you what you should do with your equity based on your personal. Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and we’re looking to add 10 more people to our Amsterdam product and engineering team. We have a variety of engineering vacancies including DevOps Engineer, frontend and backend Python:
At Secfi we 100% agree. Employees should: (a) have the knowledge to fairly assess their equity, and (b) have the option to cash out before an exit. We're working hard to fix this information asymmetry, and try to offer a way out of the equity-golden-handcuffs with a win-win structure to as many people as possible. Our financing product is not cheap, but it's a great option for a lot of startup employees that aren't able to sell their stock today. Sadly, that's still the reality at the moment, and as other commenters remarked it's likely to stay that way because individual employees are at such a negotiation disadvantage.
With all that said, there's still heaps to be done to fix this issue and we'd love to get feedback from the community on some of our material:
Yeah - Mailchimp is great!
But I'm not sure it's possible to enforce just one email marketing system? Feels like there's always forces to add yet another system. Intercom, for example, brings a nice little chat widget & an integrated email system. This will inevitably result in email subscribe/unsubscribe dynamics - or are we doing something wrong?
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