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Uber Funding
- Uber funded by Saudi Arabia How do Uber employees feel about getting $3.5 Billion from one one of the most repressive regimes in the world, a regime whose wealth in the past allowed it to sow the seeds of fundamentalism worldwide?
- link Mutual Funds Mark Down Uber Investments by Up to 15% https://www.wsj.com/articles/mutual-funds-mark-down-uber-investments-by-up-to-15-1503443267
- After Uber IPO starting a fund, AMA After Uber IPO I have a fund lined up and am working on rounding out the next group of LPs. AMA.
- Do Liberals realize Thiel's Founders Fund is a major investor in Lyft and not Uber? Are you kidding me with this "delete Uber I'm going to use Lyft" nonsense....
- Grab 2billion funding Wondering how's Uber reacting with Grab receiving $2 billion dollars of funding. Grab is Ubers competitor in Southeast Asia
- vote Uber vs Uber Freight Is Uber Freight immune from this recent chaos of Uber or it's going to go into chaos too? Debating on wether I should join Uber Freight after seeing all this Uber chaos on Blind and news. The HM said Uber Freight is separate from Uber, it's like a start up within Uber which gets the benefits of usin
- link Seattle proposes to triple per-ride tax rip Uber and Lyft https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-could-tax-uber-and-lyft-rides-to-fund-downtown-streetcar-affordable-housing/
- Product designer looking for new opportunities Hey blind community, I am a product designer looking for new opportunities. I currently work at an early stage startup that has zero funding so far and is still developing our product. Im looking for established companies or startups (with funding) with open product designer roles. Companies I’d
- link Uber raises $5 Billion?! http://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-raises-3-5-billion-from-saudi-fund-1464816529 That's a lot of $$$
- link Travis is back! Was reading through this. https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-travis-kalanick-saudi-arabia-funding-cloud-kitchens-delivery-2019-11 Thoughts?
- How can I become rich? (India) I'm 24 years old with work experience 2.5 years. Till now I have saved 40L (37L equity + 2.5L PF + 50k emergency fund) I want to have 2+Cr by next 2 years. How can I achieve it? TC: 64L + paper stocks Company: Hedge fund startup All figures are in INR. Any financial advice from senior folks is ap
- vote Offer evals SoFi - Seattle TC 310-320k - Senior software engineer No sign on Google - Seattle Currently on teammatch - expecting around 320k On of big hedge fund (citadel, two sigma, hrt, Jane street etc) - New York TC 340k to 370k 30-50k sign on Role: fullstack engineer Doordash - they rejected me after on
- Bolt L5 offer Asking for a friend - How is Bolt Checkout company’s engineering culture and business outlook in terms of competition with Stripe, checkout.com etc? He has L5 offer and currently thinking of joining. Bolt seems to be on hiring spree and lots of ex-Uber folks have joined it recently. They just had th
- Offer Evaluation - Uber India - Data Scientist/Product Anlayst(L5) Offer Details: Fixed Comp: 42 LPA Provident Fund + Gratuity: 2.5 LPA Stocks: 50000 USD (vested across 4 years) Bonus: 9 LPA Currently working with Facebook (IC5) as data analyst. Total Years of experience: 8 years What is the general salary range for a L5 in uber? #offerevaluation #indiasalary #u
- vote when should i sell stocks to cover tax bill i have a large tax bill coming up in April, when should i sell stocks (not Uber, mosty index funds) to cover the bill?
- Uber Freight? Anyone have any insights on Uber Freight? Particularly senior leadership. Work culture, traction, how independent it truly is, how it fares vs funded competitors etc.
- RSUs at private companies If I get RSUs at a private company like Uber, and the value of Uber increases due to another round of funding during to my time there, do I have to pay cash out of pocket on the paper gains if I leave Uber before an IPO?
- vote Should we sell Uber RSUs to re invest in stable stock? I'll be joining uber soon and I should get 100k worth of rsu this year. I will have to sell 35% of stock every month to cover my taxes. I'll be left with around 5.5k worth of stock every month. I am planning to sell majority of my stocks every month and re invest the amount in some stable stock or f
- vote How the bubble POPs 1. Uber and a few other startups have layoffs; stocks drop 2. WeWork goes ipo and crashes 3. Softbank and other funds deep in the red 4. Funds start writing off losses devaluing startups and leading to more write offs / losses 5. Many engineers enter market due layoffs and lowered TC (supply goes up
- link Someone is Lying. (Uber & Lyft) Uber says their 2017 1st quarter growth has been awesome, despite negative press. https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/21/uber-says-rides-grew-more-in-early-2017-than-in-early-2016-despite-issues/ Lyft is blowing up + new funding http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14860016/lyft-expansion-2017-us-100-ci
- Congratulations to Lyft Congratulations on the funding. We may be competitors but the industry has so much room to grow. If Uber legitimately makes cities and transport better, then so do you. I respect what you have built. Keep up the good work.
- vote Startups Vs Unicorns Vs FAANG for maximizing TC & growing career Startups can be stealth mode, seed funded or Series A/B Unicorns are big companies but still act as startups internally like Uber, Dropbox, Lyft, Airbnb FAANG is FAANG TC:300K
- vote Do you feel pressure/stress due to fear of PIP or layoff risk? (non-FAANG ALLUM* version) For employees at: Cisco Dropbox Github Nvidia Oracle Palantir algo/HFT prop trading firms quant hedge funds "New" other companies (*FAANG ALLUM = Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google, Airbnb LinkedIn Lyft Uber Microsoft)
- vote Uber Bangalore vs Amazon Bangalore vs Startup I have interviews coming up with them, wondering knowing current situation and uncertainties, which one is best bet. A little about Uber and Amazon - Uber India - According to one of my colleague who worked with Uber from 2019-2020, uber used to fire people without even giving proper reasons, and
- Uber current 409a value I am expecting L5 offer from Uber. Recruiter mentioned that I will be getting stock at new 409a values. Did the value significantly change after recent funding? What is the current 409a stock price? Current TC 350
- link Private funds? It seems like private funds are going to capture more and more value growth as companies put off listing or avoid it altogether, arguably the public market hasn't been the same since Enron (1). What private funds are you all into or considering? I enjoy fundrise (albiet <5% of Net Worth) and have
- 250k + Canada Salary Which companies in Canada are offering more than 250k Canadian dollars salaries for around 7 years of experience ?? In India , funded startups are actually able to match the highest salaries given by Amazon Uber etc What about the scene in Canada. TC: 40 LPA , Walmart India
- Why do most startups offer relatively low pay for engineers? I understand they have limited funds in early stage, but it's disappointing. Because there are a few startups that I would like to join, but would need to take a pay cut. This does not include late stage "startups" like Uber or Pinterest of course.
- Series B startup comp Expecting an offer from a series B startup in Autonomous driving space. Company has 150 m funding and 150 employees. Any idea on expected comp? Can I expect same level as Uber etc? Current tc 180 Yoe 18 :(
- Uber offer and 409 a valuation So I got offer from Uber last week , the recruiter is pushing to sign it by tomorrow , she is saying fmv will change next Monday current fmv is @34. Offer is 180k/500k over 4 years no sign on L5 Is fmv changing next week ? I know Uber had another round of funding recently.. any insights what the fm
- Can Uber's fall cause a recession in the Bay Area? There is so much money, talent and hope invested in Uber. Could it's failing cause investors to panic, and the general mood in the Valley to descend to a level where the chain-reaction causes drying up of funding and cutting back on multiple levels?
- vote Bentley or RollsRoyce? Joined Uber in 2014, have over 140000 Stocks Plus bought Another 20K stocks in March downturn. As of today Networth is little over 6.8M. Home - Yes 2M as of 11/20 Saved for emergency fund - Yes 1M College / tuition for kids - Yes 1M Status GC -- No hard feelings, choose which one you will pick.
- Series C startup equity What's a reasonable amount of equity for a SWE at a Series C startup? Is 0.15% good? I have 9 yoe. Valuation between 70-80mil. Most recent raise was in 2019, total funding raised from all rounds is around 40mil. Looking to IPO in 1-2 years. 60-70 employees. Coming from Uber, the value of the equ
- vote Would you ever accept funding from Benchmark? https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/17/travis-kalanick-strikes-back-against-benchmark-lawsuit-calling-it-a-public-and-personal-attack/ What's happening at Uber with their investor Benchmark and Travis is insane. If I ever started a company and was seeking venture funding. I'm not sure if I'll ever engag
- Anyone heard of Elemy I am currently interviewing for Elemy and looks like a well-funded startup. Does anyone know about the company ? Edit: Elemy was formerly known as Sprout therapy. Spoke to one of their engineers and they are hiring most smartest talent in the field from companies like google, uber, linkedin #el
- Seed stage startup vs Uber Hello, I have couple of offers. Seed stage startup (got ~9M funding in seed stage, will apply for series A next year) is paying TC 170k (machine learning engineer, bay area, will sponsor h1b) Uber is paying TC 200k (software engineer - backend, bay area, will sponsor h1b) Background: New grad, a
- Finally after 25 interviews I have 2 offers! Finally made it, below is the list of companies I was rejected by Dropbox -3 times Box Realtor eBay - 2 times Facebook - 4 times Google - 3 times Lyft Funding circle DoorDash Instacart Airbnb Game time LinkedIn Uber - 3 times Adobe Updater Upwork Ancestry New TC - 230k YOE - 5 yrs Edit
- vote Uber India vs London Startup Tc.27LPA yoe. 3 (INDIA) I have offer from 2 places 1. Uber IDC, tc-50, base -32, bonus- 6, rsu- remaining 2. London - 40 million USD(series B) funded startup. Tc - 70k GBP Which one should I choose, I am confused because london tc is not competetive to uber as per expenses etc, but I will get
- Series F startup options Hi, How much options should one expect from a series F startup worth 2b and 200m funding? Going to be employee #250 ish for a senior tech role (director type) reporting to VP. The options are not RSUs like Uber or Airbnb. TC: ~600 (b4 2019 refreshers and raise), M2 level
- How much equity would you want to join an unfunded startup for a year? Given a start that makes sense to you... Nothing like an Uber or tsla, but something g with legit business sense. What equity would you want to work a year more or less unpaid? Assume company is building up a product and customer base to make funding happen after year one
- link SoftBank banking on GM cruise Uber partnered with Waymo. Uber's one of the largest investor is banking on GM Cruise. GM have 10% stake in Lyft (Uber's competitor) haha top investing firm and companies showing how they diversify. https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/05/31/general-motors-cruise-softbank
- vote Bridgewater Associates vs Palantir vs. Uber (Internship) Hey, CS sophomore at Stanford. Prior internships at Facebook and Bay Area startups. I received several offers but these are the ones I am considering: Bridgewater, a hedge fund in Conneticut, as an technology associate (software) intern on the trading technologies team, Palantir, on their Gotham sof
- vote Interviews are too easy nowadays ? (Google, FB, snap, citadel,.. offers) 😴 Did a few onsites past few few months and aside from a few hedge funds all the LC questions were medium level or easier with easy followups. Have interviews gotten easier in LC bar recently? Tagged a few companies below I interviewed with, got offers from more than half of them without doing any L
- Diversify investment into bonds I currently have most of my savings in stocks (AMZN, MSFT, UBER) or mutual funds (VTSAX). To hedge the market risk I want to diversify my investment portflio. 1. what bonds would you suggest to buy? 2. what do you think about investment in gold? TC: 400k YOE: 7
- uber ny resume screen Got referred for "backend swe" position in ny. I have 3 yoe with go/aws. Apparently i didn't even make it past the resume screen. Wtf is uber looking for? FYI I have onsites with fang + hedge funds with the same resume, so it can't be the resume.
- Potential Uber L5a offer in BLR/India I currently work at a Series-D funded Ecommerce startup in Bengaluru as an SDE4/SSE2. I am currently interviewing with Uber and looks like they might downgrade my level to L5a. The pay might be slightly higher than what I get now or even lower (I am not too worried about this though). But I am not s
- vote London to US? I am a SWE in mid twenties working at Meta London. My partner is also working in the Big Tech. We've got EU passports. Currently considering a move to US on L1 visas for better opportunities and compensation. TC in London is lower than in US, while taxes are high, and housing expensive. Thinking wh
- Looking for referrals to companies in NYC or remote I’m a front end web developer and have 3 years of experience. I’m looking referrals to well funded start-ups or FAANMULA. Except for Google and Amazon I already have referrals for those companies. #slack #paypal #twitter #dropbox #atlassian #brex #instacart #square #twilio #faang #datadog #snowflak
- vote Are Series D and beyond startups really risky ? People keep saying ~90% of startups fail. I am wondering if a startup has made its way to Series D or even beyond that, what are the odds of it failing or not having a reasonable exit ? I know whenever something like this comes, people love to quote WeWork, but I would like to think of it as an exc
- WSJ: America Is Stuck at Home, but Food-Delivery Companies Still Struggle to Profit "Sales for Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash Inc. and Postmates Inc. are growing, according to the companies and credit-card data. But increased costs to fund promotions and safety equipment on one hand, and pressure to reduce commissions for strapped restaurants on the other, have created an even worse