Mega Pre IPO $500K+ Thread 10+ YOE
What are the best Pre-IPO companies to join in 2022? Role: Staff Software Engineer YOE: 10+ Domain: Distributed Systems, ML/AI Databricks Stripe Instacart Plaid Brex FlexPort Discord Airtable Carta Chime Figma Reddit Lacework Do you guys think joining above companies would make us $3M+ after IPO? #meta #salary #offer #faang #ipo
Plaid, if you like screen scraping
I heard screen scraping is … getting scraped?
Can you elaborate? I heard this screen scraping thing Abt plaid in a lot of blind posts.
Instacart? Thoughts?
Nah. Only way is if Amazon buys it out and that’s unlikely.
So you’re looking for a 3x on your initial grant? Which of those companies can 3x? I’d say all - maybe not Instacart since it’s already huge and gig economy blows.
Yeah 3x+ Agree instacart, stripe, databricks already valuable at high end.
3x in what time frame?
My bet would be carta or flexport
I think flexport, plaid, brex, airtable has 5x upside in next 5 years. What others think ?
Brex seems overrated and unlikely to make a lot of money
Flex port is just a glorified freight forwarder . Why do you think it has 5x upside .
Airtable is an easy one. Great growth, hitting their stride, amazing and humble talent. You can’t go wrong coming here.
Does Airtable offer 4 year grants? What’s the L5 equity amount?
Yes to 4 yr. My equity was $1.7m.
Figma is wildly dominating the market right now
This is obvious but also surprising. Can't Adobe just add multiplayer and it's game over. What is the moat for Figma?
I feel like Figma is the one guaranteed here, with no competition in sight close , sky Is the limit for them. why? I don’t know, others just not that good
I think it’s a little late to join for a “easy” $3mm. U mean $3mm in 4 years? With the hopes that these companies will continue to grow?
Yes
$ 3m in 4 years is not hard, but they are paper money, which one would hold if goes ipo, and which one is first to go ipo
Wealthsimple if you are in Canada
Could you elaborate?
Wealthsimple offers no upside. Only if they grow by >10x you can make at most 500k CAD per year.
Ligma
You're nuts.
Figma?