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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part IV, featuring Diana Kimball Berlin, Jake Gibson, Jesse Middleton, Adam Nelson and Nikhil Basu Trivedi.

Hunter Walk

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired. Reporting out in batches of five.

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Why I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix

Entrepreneur's Handbook

In this article, I discuss the three factors that helped me understand the real cost of golden handcuffs, and why even a half-million dollar salary a year couldn’t get me to stay at a job I no longer enjoyed. Playing it safe is the riskiest choice of all Golden handcuffs?—?when I thought I was going to stay at Netflix forever. Unlimited PTO.