Stripe allows you to bill based on reported usage which seems considerably easier than crafting an equivalent feature from scratch. This is how we handle billing at skusavvy
Depends on their situation and environment. If they have a good manager who recognizes that "helping someone to grow" is better for both sides of the interaction than "drop 'em and take a risk on hiring someone else", and/or if they're in a situation where the engineer can accept the risk that their manager isn't that, it's certainly the best bet.
Employees are an investment. An employee who can take the initiative to flag-up areas that they could benefit from training is valuable.
Comments like these remind that while I miss the US personally, I don't at all miss it professionally. While things in my current country (Norway) err on the side of making it damned near impossible to fire someone, the upside is as a manager I can have very frank conversations with the people on my team about how they're performing. They don't live in any fear of this, they see it as a way to improve.
I built a todo app that might interest you. It lets you nest todo items to any arbitrary level as I preferred it to the flatter trello structure especially when working with software projects that are very heirarchical in nature. It just stores data in local storage but you could easily mod it to import export json. Also has IDE inspired keyboard shortcuts for traversing the list. If you’re interested you can have the code it’s on my github.
Becoming a public company is a way to get equity investment. That is the purpose of the stock market. It was the original purpose of "investment banks" as opposed to "retail banks".
However, that is not what the bankers of Wall Street now focus on, they are more involved in producing "financial products", packaging arcane structures primarily to encourage trading and thus fees from mindless turnover.
Packaging arcane structures and securitizing them has a huge impact on overall risk in the market and enables pretty significant cost reductions downstream (generally) in the markets that can offload the risk via the security.
I understand there are bad actors as well as people making the trades that make money, but there is also an underlying reason the trades get made, typically that is often discounted by your argument and should be factored in.
The reason we can click a button and get a loan is because it is not extremely risky for the company to make the loan, because of said instruments (as an example)
There is a bloat of capital seeking any and all possibility for growth. Even money-destroying companies are going public because growth-chasing has become so desperate.
But airbnb and uber were at a stage where they didn't have much to lose when they first challenged these regulations. Facebook is one of the most well known companies in the world.
https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#usage...