Anyone investing in pre-IPO companies during this stock market roller coaster? Any good deals to be had? Looking at Discord, Aviatrix, Automation Anywhere and Databricks. Concerns - Discord - valuation is high, and losing money. Is the moat large enough? Automation Anywhere - is the rise of Generati...Read more
Heard ad on radio about real estate investment : 6% tax free guranteed return from this real estate finance firm ... anyone heard or tried them ? Not sure how legit it is. Their site : nria.net
Hey, has anybody moved from tech company over to investment company? How does that work for you? I had an interview with Morgan Stanley about 3 years ago for their VP role. Cleared the onsite round, but didn't win over at HM. After that I ended up at a fin-tech startup(left lately for other reason...Read more
Hi All, Can anyone shed light into what can be done to 401K money when switching companies? I read that 401K money needs to be transferred to a different/new IRA account, I wonder if we need to sell off investments and then transfer money to IRA and re-invest, does that sound right or is there a be...Read more
Hi all, It’s been only 8 month since I joined the firm but due to some personal reasons I’m planning to quit the company. I would like to understand the process for that and what would be the notice period. I feel awkward to communicate this information to my manager and how unpleasant would the pr...Read more
Given the china trade restrictions and other south asian countries rejecting the junk from US to recycle , which waste management US companies might be good to invest ?
Which of these is better for ETFs, individual stocks, etc.? I am currently using RH but want to move as I feel unsafe in putting my stock in there for longer. Also, I want to try out other managed investment options, so trying to find the best out of the ones out there. If there are any that I may...Read more
Any tips for an someone starting to explore a move from investment banking (associate) to tech? Tips on how to approach, interviews, etc. Any recommendations in which teams within tech are probably a best fit? #tech #jobfit #jobhunt
Seeking advice on investing $200,000+. I don’t have time to research on stock market and invest in other places too. Is there some good research and investment management companies that can yield me solid returns? TC: $300K YOE:8 Position:SDE (L5)
Like morgan stanley, fidelity in US any good companies in India. Is putting most of your networth in zerodha risk free ? My trust on banks are much higher than something like zerodha.
Any good recommendations which platform to use for start up investment in US and any company recommendations?#personalfinance #investments
I’m over the public company thing, being beholden to shareholders who are only interested in short term gains is soil sucking. What are some companies that are private and aren’t owned by rando investors? Off the top of my head I can think of Valve
I invested some money into a private equity via Sharespost. Sharespost transferred the fund to another company flowinc.app. Now the underlying equity/company is public but flowinc is not transferring the equity to my brokerage account. They have been saying they will transfer shortly for over four ...Read more
Tech folks #investment #tax #stocks #tech
Edit: it’s easier to just buy XLG (top 50 companies in S&P 500). But this underperformed the S&P 500 more than desired in the past 30 years. Pivoting to VUG and MGK since they have an almost perfect correlation to the S&P 500 and decisively outperformed it over the past 30 years I’m testing a portf...Read more
Previous company is going public but nowhere near my current company's valuation... If they go public and nothing literally happens to stock (just stays flat) then I get ~$1.5m pre-tax. I can sell all of my stock on first day but I won't because I have long term capital gains effective for 45% of my...Read more
Bought stock at 31, now deep under water, wondering if I should still hold it
Creating new technology and leading is fun, but the money lies in services. Think of hundreds of billions made by the likes of Accenture, Deloitte, Infosys etc. Do you think tech firms can and should be able to run such businesses? For example Pytorch is great..why not monetize in services and repla...Read more
Imagine the following four scenarios: A: working as Netflix Senior, Snap L4, FB E5 for 400k ~ 600k TC a year, with all investment in SPY with minimal/no investment activity (passive investment, mutual fund, wealth front, etc) B: working as Uber 5a, Linkedin Staff, Dropbox IC 3 for 300k~400k TC a y...Read more