Late last year, when it came to hiring another Senior Developer as an additional person for the team, we sat down and tried to answer the question "How to organize fair pay in Acter, as a remote-first for-good startup". Now that the latest version of the Calculator has been agreed
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A Detailed Guide to Remote Employee Onboarding
Employee onboarding affects new hires and your team, so getting it right the first time pays dividends for your company right from the start.
Inside Automattic’s remote hiring process
How can Automattic consistently hire the best people without ever having a single voice conversation? Let’s face it, hiring is tough. When you ask startup founders what their biggest challenge is, …
How we pay people at Basecamp
There are no negotiated salaries or raises at Basecamp. Everyone in the same role at the same level is paid the same. Equal work, equal pay. We assess new hires on a scale that goes from junior pro…
a simple (local) solution to the pay gap — wingolog
wingolog: article: a simple (local) solution to the pay gap
How to Pay Remote Workers · npf.io
Pay remote workers the same as you’d pay local workers. Or vice versa if your local workers are cheap.
A Decade of Remote Work
Intro While still in college (go Broncos!), I teamed up with Alex (@slevenbits) to create a startup. We were young, inexperienced and naive. Our first …
LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word
If you’ve been following the local-first scene over the past few years, you already know a good definition for the term “local-first” is hard to pin down. Part of the reason is that most people write software for money … and true local-first software is harder to capitalize. “Local-first” is a direct attack on vendor lock-in of all forms: data, formats, protocols, apps, services, and even environments. But the fact your employer can’t exploit this technology with a new revenue model (yet) is a minor problem.
Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for - PostHog
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...
AI Employees Don't Pay Taxes | Alec Armbruster
Principal software engineer with deep experience in full-stack TypeScript, custom web browsers and real-time, media-focused systems.
From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy
“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.”
Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.
How to think about AI company finances
OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.
