We made a similar arrangement a year ago, and it didn't cause any significant issues. We chose to be transparent about it, and every employee was allowed to sell the same percentage of their shares (as long as they're vested) as the founders. Most chose not to sell.
People should understand that building a successful independent company is easier when the founders don't have to worry about their financials.
Smartly.io | Software Engineer | JavaScript, React, Redux, Ruby, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Cassandra | Helsinki, Finland ONSITE VISA | Full-time
Smartly.io is a product for large-scale Facebook marketing automation and optimisation. We’re a profitable and fast-growing startup, with 150+ employees and counting. Companies like eBay and Skyscanner use our products to grow their business.
We deploy to 400+ servers 10-20 times per day, processing petabytes of data every month. In frontend we do React+Redux+Flow, and in the backend services are mostly written in Ruby, Node.js and Kotlin.
It's relatively easy to Google for expat websites for any specific country. The salaries are generally lower, but so is the cost of housing.
Our company Smartly.io is also hiring. 3-year-old startup, 100 employees, 30+ engineers, profitable, some real scalability issues to be solved (already 200+ servers), and based in Helsinki. :)
The local university here in Finland has in interesting partnership with Microsoft. They offer you some money if you develop your app exclusively for Windows Phone for the first 6 months or so. Seems quite harmful for the startups...
If you think you've found a bug, please let us know by tweeting or emailing team@, and we'll get it fixed. We haven't had downtime in 2 months, so I'm curious what seemed to be broken.
I also spent a lot of time trying to figure this out.
When you can finally find the New Repository link from the News Feed page, it doesn't have an option for choosing the account for the repository. You need to do that before going to the New Repository page...
We rolled out the FB/Google signup/login today, so we don't have any numbers about the usage yet. We'll need to do a blog post about that when we have some hard data.
People should understand that building a successful independent company is easier when the founders don't have to worry about their financials.