Filip Sturman
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Filip Sturman
@FilipSturman
Startups, tech and growth | Building @Fonoa_HQ and solving one of the largest yet unsolved problems in e-commerce - taxes. Previously @Uber
Katılım Eylül 2011
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BIMODAL HIRING
The hiring market is becoming bimodal. Companies want to hire either:
Extremely experienced / strong / 10x engineers (eg: @bcherny) or growth marketers (eg: @ElenaVerna) or salespeople who use AI to refine their craft.
OR
Young people who are fearless and AImaxxed doers.
In the middle is death. Esp if you're a spreadsheet jockey, as most middle managers are.
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What's the best "careers page" / applicant tracking software?
Currently using Workable but it's just okay
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@Altimor Agree, we constantly do team offsites and company-wide offsites, but nothing beats the bandwidth of in-person information exchange. The agility just flourishes. If corporations stay remote, startups should go fully in-office to outcompete them.
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Pains me to say this, but even I have changed my stance on remote.
We tried hard, developed the best tooling allowed by the tech — and still, remote falls very short of colocation, especially for startups that are still pre-product market fit.
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Massive thanks to the entire @Fonoa_HQ team, @jpalaniappan @HannahLSeal @williampbarnes and many others supporting us on this journey!
TechCrunch@TechCrunch
Ireland's Fonoa raises $20.5M to help digital-first businesses stay tax compliant as they scale globally tcrn.ch/3czYws7 by @bayareawriter
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Excited to back the exceptional @Fonoa_HQ team who I've known since the early Uber days. Wrote more about why we're so bullish on the opportunity to build a technology-first global tax platform here. medium.com/omers-ventures…
TechCrunch@TechCrunch
Ireland's Fonoa raises $20.5M to help digital-first businesses stay tax compliant as they scale globally tcrn.ch/3czYws7 by @bayareawriter
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Thread: Business Writing 101
Learning to write at work is one of the best things you can do for your career, and this is a step-by-step guide for doing it well.
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The past months, Stripe has launched Stripe Tax and Stripe Identity: both massive opportunities.
This year, Adyen launched Planet, a tweak in the checkout flow (carbon offsetting).
Also: Stripe now aggressively hiring in Europe, including from Adyen, in the Netherlands.
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
So interesting to see how Stripe and Adyen are faring: especially as they are different (engineering) cultures, and are on a collision course. In 2020, Stripe had several self-reported product launches. Adyen: no new product launches. A striking difference. Coincidence?
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Great read from @ashleypaston!
Taxes on global e-commerce are getting more complex to handle, and current solutions are too costly and clunky.
We at @Fonoa_HQ are here to change that!
ashleypaston@ashleypaston
1/ The tax industry needs software now more than ever. I'm excited to share my latest thinking in @TechCrunch today techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/no-…
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@artman Such a hedge would assume most people are well trained in the dynamics between equity and cash and have chosen the latter to reduce perceived risk. But getting significant equity in Europe is still a novel thing
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@FilipSturman If cash is king, then doesn’t that mean thatpeople don’t believe in the company they’re joining?
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European engs & designers, what are your thoughts on equity?
I’ve been getting the feeling that it’s really not well understood or even appreciated, which is one of the biggest differences to the U.S (where equity is the most important aspect of compensation). Proof me wrong.
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"I gotta play this to the absolute, maximum outcome and potential that we have been handed.
So, my paranoia and where the drive comes from is ‘are we doing enough?
I live in constant fear that I am missing opportunities and that I am not doing enough."
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“Before Webflow, it used to take us 4-6 weeks minimum to ship a page, now we can get new pages out in a week or two — including content, design, and building in Webflow.”
Learn why @AngelList relies on Webflow to prepare for hypergrowth:
webflow.com/customers/ange…
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@sudhirj Yes, but not at the speed we would like to see. There were some promising initiatives on the remittance front recently in the EU (MOSS/OSS) for example, but still far from a completely automated experience.
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@FilipSturman Thanks. And do you see a path towards automating account creating and remittance as well? Or will that remain manual work the foreseeable future?
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@FilipSturman Do any/many of the tax authorities that you've seen offer an API to set up accounts and report invoices? Or does each country still need to be reported to individually?
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@alexellisuk @notrab Great, can you drop me your email in DM? it’s open
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I was looking for a way to sell access to private GitHub repository for an upcoming course I'm building, but couldn't find anything that just used Stripe itself.
So I built it! 🤩
Introducing repopaywall.vercel.app
Hosted on @vercel, powered by @stripe
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Counterintuitively, failing fast gives you back the time to go chase your next bet
Dan Rose@DanRose999
I learned an important lesson in business when I launched a new retail category early in my career at Amazon: Fail Fast! I spent 18 months shipping a product that should have taken a few months, delaying the oppty to learn and adjust to our initial failure. Here's what happened:
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@alexellisuk @notrab We are currently extending our tax API offering to help creators as well. Would love to hook you guys up with our beta, free of charge of course and get your feedback.
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@notrab @vercel @stripe @PaddleHQ @gumroad Both of the ones I mentioned cover you in the EU, without having to think about it. Paddle AFAIK also covers the US sales taxes, which are mandatory at certain volumes
Stripe unfortunately does not do anything to help here and far too many solopreneurs are out of compliance :-(
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@GergelyOrosz Stripe's ability to ship at this level is astonishing.
Democratizing product decision-making really does scale well.
I wonder what are the advantages of a centralized command and control model these days anyway? Cost perhaps, but short term.
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So interesting to see how Stripe and Adyen are faring: especially as they are different (engineering) cultures, and are on a collision course.
In 2020, Stripe had several self-reported product launches. Adyen: no new product launches.
A striking difference. Coincidence?
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
This is the model most EU companies have operated with for a long-long time. What makes this interesting is how Adyen going head-to-head with the likes of Stripe. Where every engineer/PM has major ownership. They feel empowered to innovate - and have a (lot) of skin in the game.
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