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Ben Guillet

@benguillet_

CTO @finnt_app (YCW22) | 2x Founding Engineer (both acquired) 🇫🇷🇺🇸👨🏻‍🦰

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agora (@agoracomp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let’s talk about #equity! We wrote a piece about what you need to know about #stockoptions, restricted stock grants and exercising before reviewing your next #joboffer. Check it out 👇 getagora.com/post/startup-e…

agora (@agoracomp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At Agora, we know that our customers (and fans!) are our best advocates. If you know of a company that could benefit from having interactive offer letter experiences for candidates and a better compensation management system, refer them to us and get paid! getagora.com/customer-refer…

California HCD (@california_hcd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

HCD will conduct a first-ever Housing Policy and Practice Review of San Francisco, aimed at identifying and removing barriers to approval and construction of new housing there. What this means in the 🧵 👇🏾 1/ hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/…

California HCD (@california_hcd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“We are deeply concerned about processes and political decision-making in San Francisco that delay and impede the creation of housing and want to understand why this is the case.” - Gustavo Velasquez 3/

compound (@compound) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Successful startups are taking nearly twice as long to go public as they did twenty years ago This shift greatly impacts tech people's finances If you work at or are looking to join a startup, here’s what you should know:

compound (@compound) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Startup offer letters can be *very* confusing—especially the equity portion—as they rarely provide all of the information you need to make an informed decision Here are the questions you should _always_ clarify to prevent making any big mistakes:

Dan Primack (@danprimack) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a very important moment for VCs to prove their worth. That fabled “value-add.” If a VC fund has access to capital (ie not tied up in Svb), it can offer now to front the 3/15 payroll, if it proves necessary. Lowercarbon just did this, per letter to founders. Who’s next?

Coby (@cobylefko) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard. For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!

Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard.

For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!
East Bay for Everyone (@eb4everyone) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Following years of booming, mostly market rate housing construction in Berkeley, landlords are upset that tenants have power in the rental market. Great news for tenants! Let’s do more of this

Following years of booming, mostly market rate housing construction in Berkeley, landlords are upset that tenants have power in the rental market.

Great news for tenants! Let’s do more of this
Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My candidate says something crazy: They aren’t actually serious/the crazy thing they said would never actually happen, duh! Your candidate says something crazy: Absolute outrage, clear evidence of their descent into madness

Ramit Sethi (@ramit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is why your housing is so expensive Not Blackstone, not "greedy landlords" Just your mom, dad, & neighbors voting for NIMBY local politicians who then prevent housing from being built That's why you pay tens of thousands of dollars more than you need to Simple as that