The exception is that he uses those bike lanes for shopping, not just exercise. Every suburb has plenty of great biking space (the streets are not busy!), but nobody thinks to try to use them that way.
> as the sale price($5.1B) is greater than funds raised($1.2B) everyone made some money
Absolutely not true. It means someone made money, but it very much does not mean that "everyone" made some money.
In deals like this, common stock often is valued at $0, and employees are instead given a 4-year grant of RSUs in the new company. In other words, their time at Brex was worthless, and they have to last 4 years to get anything. The schedule is often back loaded (eg $0 in the first 2 years, 50% at year 3 and 4). Since most folks won't make it to 3 years, the company knows they won't be paying out almost any of these grants.
An opaque method of ensuring investors get a huge payout at the expense of employees with ISOs that convert to common stock. Many startups refuse to share this multiplier with candidates, and will instead insist their equity grant is "competitive with the market" and "very generous."
I wouldn't be surprised if, despite the large-sounding acquisition sum of ~5b, many employees are getting their equity zero'd out and replaced with a back-loaded 4 year grant, with vesting starting today and no credit for time already worked.
> It's just shocking to me how certain demographics are so eager to vote against their own interests.
Something that's been made very clear over the last few election cycles is that a lot of voters will go against their own interests, as long as it hurts their perceived "enemy" more than themselves.
Right. This article discusses how race plays a central role in the opposition to universal health care policies like Obamacare, particularly focusing on how some of the resistance in the South is due to white populations not wanting Black Americans to receive free care: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/univ...
As a brown American who has to carry passport the moment I step outside my house and hope that ICE goons give me the opportunity to show it if detained, I am all ears to hear about your experiences with racism toward white cis males.
I am not blaming my skin color on anything. I am blaming ICE for using my skin color to violate my rights.
ICE is literally using skin color to determine who to stop and detain. The last time I checked they had detained more than 200 US Citizens and all of them were POCs. MPD police chief also shared similar incidences even involving his police officers. And there is literally nobody in this administration doing anything to stop it. Even Kavanaugh is on it.
Compared to this, what racism do you face?
Edit: Not sure if you read this but this is a recent story: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ice-elderly-hmong-ame.... Do you and your relatives support this? If not, why aren't you protesting for your fellow countrymen rather than playing a victim?
You're conflating "efficiency" with "disenfranchising voters."
Mail-in voting enabled citizens who otherwise simply couldn't vote, to vote. Citizens who, more often than not, were from already disadvantaged backgrounds.
Ok, now compare other things they do to enable voting. Is voting day a holiday and/or do workers get guaranteed paid time to vote? Are the ballot boxes equally accessible for most people, and not strategically placed to disenfranchise certain voters?
The narrative has officially shifted to, "ICE subdued an armed supremest with gang ties."
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