vbhartia

great write up. always been curious about this... how do you value growth... especially as Uber / Lyft IPO and face slowing growth.

What basis do you use to get the discount rate of a SaaS company? This seems fairly arbitrary and is a key part to valuing a company

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Uber, Senior Software Engineer, leading initiatives for International Growth, India, etc. Position could be in SF or India. Lots of high impact projects figuring out growth for emerging markets - making it easy for Riders and Drivers.

Please email - vbhartia@uber.com

Yeah - definitely able to go full time after. It's hard and very privileged to be able to go full time now when the company is so early stage.

I agree - It really feels like YC is now geared towards more later stage companies. Companies that are in the growth phase vs. finding product market fit. Also you have to be full time on your idea in order to be taken seriously.

Is that a misconception?

Yeah - makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

Got it. Thanks! How did you think about the standard terms - 7% of your company for 120k. Seems like you would've had a higher valuation already, so 7% would have been costly. Feel free to not reply, I understand if you can't disclose terms.

Reading through your YC application, you were already so successful ($1M in rev, 60% growth rate, 1M users), did you ever have second thoughts about going through YC? If you had not gotten in, what would you have done otherwise?

Congrats on your success!