1f:[[34003539,{"by":"iambateman","descendants":18,"id":34003539,"kids":[34003712,34004068,34005835,34007656,34007921,34003582,34012347,34004472,34004254,34003941],"score":14,"text":"Two friends and I started a public library technology company in 2014. We are collectively majority shareholders but in 2020, we turned operations over to another shareholder, who is paid about $80k/year and has about 25% of shares. Total revenue is holding steady at ~250k/year.

In 2021, he issued an amendment to increase the number of allowed shares to dilute us out of ownership. We voted it down.

Two weeks ago, he sent out another amendment for the same thing but this time it “passed” because of new shares which he was not authorized to issue.

We are not on friendly terms with him, to say the least, but we also aren’t interested in taking over operations ourselves.

Is there anything we can do? Any advice is welcome.","time":1671128696,"title":"LLC legal challenge what do we do?","type":"story"}],[33783485,{"by":"saimiam","descendants":42,"id":33783485,"kids":[33783750,33785995,33787213,33784872,33783691,33783590,33789197,33796646,33796306,33783904,33790163,33784984,33784450,33785725,33787013,33797490,33784925,33797588,33791103],"score":21,"text":"Yesterday, I was talking to a product manager friend who used to be a country head for revenue at a B2B company. He went off on a rant about how annoying and dispiriting it was to talk to tech people.

According to him, this sentiment that tech people are unpleasant to deal with is quite pervasive at executive levels across multiple industry verticals.

As a tech person myself, I knew many of us were opinionated and brash but this was eye opening.

Does my friend's opinion align with your experience as well? What goes wrong when talking to tech people? How can this be improved?","time":1669693835,"title":"Ask HN: Why do so many CXOs hate talking to tech teams?","type":"story"}],[32865593,{"by":"mrobins","descendants":14,"id":32865593,"kids":[32866496,32869335,32867911,32868582],"score":9,"text":"$20","time":1663333758,"title":"Ask HN: Why is Spotify playing so many covers?","type":"story"}],[32856779,{"by":"kevivni","descendants":179,"id":32856779,"kids":[32857651,32857831,32856851,32857283,32856974,32857250,32857405,32857972,32858118,32857114,32857532,32857302,32857779,32857158,32857124,32857170,32857850,32857471,32857778,32859698,32857942,32856871,32858319,32857387,32857845,32857707,32863142,32859354,32859090,32856883,32857686,32857724,32863797,32858217,32860626,32861181,32857317,32857620,32857173,32857691,32857737,32857908,32857634,32857582,32858234,32858127,32858845,32858190,32857494,32857479,32858841,32858438,32858250,32857543,32862696,32861009,32857700,32857766,32857300,32858379,32857335,32857928,32868771,32858580,32858861,32858565,32857414,32857060,32857575,32858782,32857775,32858955,32857610,32856821,32862416,32856968],"score":141,"text":"I understand the advantages of Saas - transparent updates, cloud based, redundancy, subscriptions, scaling, unicorns etc.

Why don't we have more businesses following the JetBrains model specially if the product is not a service that needs to run 24/7. I buy the product once and use it for perpetuity. If I want updates, I pay more.

As a consumer, my data does not leave my perimeter, my data is not sold or used for ads and I am not hooking into a subscription that I am going to forget soon.

1) Personal photos and videos backup and viewer. - Just give me a cheap cloud for backup and a desktop app for viewing.\n2) Personal budget - Just give me a desktop app that connects to my different accounts and gives me overview.","time":1663267958,"title":"Ask HN: Why is everything a SaaS product?","type":"story"}],[32840645,{"by":"jd_illa","descendants":28,"id":32840645,"kids":[32841221,32855384,32841460,32841144,32845214,32840978,32859668,32844550],"score":20,"text":"I'm an attorney interested in starting my own practice. Probably will start with corporate, financing & M&A work for tech startups since that's my experience, but I'd be open to branch out as I learn more. I was surprised to learn very few attorneys do user research before opening their own shop.

(Unlike many lawyers,) I actually like practicing law and helping clients problem-solve. Would like to build a practice that serves as a solution, not another problem.

So tell me: what bad experiences have you had with lawyers? What about the good ones? If you're a founder, what is something you'd like to tell the legal industry?

Share/vent/spout off as you please, but be civil and please don't mention specific names!","time":1663177591,"title":"Ask HN: Tell me your good and bad experiences with lawyers","type":"story"}],[32778166,{"by":"Dimidium-07","descendants":31,"id":32778166,"kids":[32782758,32779897,32779452,32779667,32780512,32786927,32779013,32779628,32782533,32782362],"score":31,"text":"Co-founder of a SaaS startup that is currently being acquired. How should I negotiate my future salary as an employee? Any tips or best practices?","time":1662725485,"title":"Ask HN: Salary negotiation?","type":"story"}],[32645563,{"by":"anonymous-1993","descendants":8,"id":32645563,"kids":[32647153,32648342,32648721,32649086,32647032,32659628,32647932,32646350,32653995],"score":10,"text":"$21","time":1661821917,"title":"Ask HN: Difficulties Managing a Remote Team?","type":"story"}],[32512618,{"by":"dv35z","descendants":6,"id":32512618,"kids":[32513993,32512811,32515557,32513380,32512792],"score":5,"text":"$22","time":1660844194,"title":"Ask HN: How do you operationalize life-advice books you read into your own life?","type":"story"}],[32440843,{"by":"indus","descendants":15,"id":32440843,"kids":[32442469,32440988,32441729,32448352],"score":8,"text":"I was reading various stories on Softbank's poor performance for the last five years. It is back to zero in providing returns for its Vision fund. Other late stage funds are undergoing a similar fate where money poured. Without any checks.

There are other stories of how founders have schemed the investors. Raised at 100X revenue valuations. Spent millions of dollars. Without a product to show. Without customer traction.

I'm an idealist. Venture Capital is a greater good. It democratizes access to capital to people who otherwise did not inherit. But nervous that this tulip mania like cycle hurts more than helps.

Are people just playing roulette? Is high-tech no longer tech? But just high on the kool-aid of unabashed flow of money?","time":1660321852,"title":"Ask HN: Is Venture Capital becoming Vegas-style gambling machine?","type":"story"}],[31339871,{"by":"byteofbits","descendants":5,"id":31339871,"kids":[31342053,31347294,31341762,31339970,31344726],"score":4,"text":"As we start to scale as a company, I've increasingly felt the burden of provisioning new users (from an IT / onboarding sense) into the various SaaS products we use.

I know Okta and SCIM can help with this for some tools but there seems to be a gap around certain things like Linear, Notion and others that make this a less than ideal solution.

What steps have other people taken to make setting up new users easier and more streamlined? What tools are you using to make sure that access is removed / granted when needed?

Is Okta inevitable or is there a nice solution based on Google Workspace that saves us?

I'd love to hear how you are all tackling this issue in startup teams (10 - 50 people) and what has worked and what hasn't!","time":1652276826,"title":"Ask HN: User Provisioning at Startups","type":"story"}],[30428127,{"by":"petechapman","descendants":24,"id":30428127,"kids":[30429078,30430879,30430916,30428446,30432776,30428570,30428945,30428665,30435783,30431112,30428433,30429592],"score":17,"text":"My last company seems to be stonewalling me on how I can exercise my vested shares. After I put in my two weeks I was told by the CFO that since we were not using Carta that it was a manual process and he'd get back to me on how to exercise my shares. That was well over a month ago, and after a few follow up emails I've gotten no response. Is there anything I can do?","time":1645539391,"title":"Ask HN: My last company is stonewalling on how to exercise shares","type":"story"}]]

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