David E. Weekly — Blog

Written for a dear friend who recently joined her first Board.by David WeeklyMay 24, 2019...

Over the last few years, my wife Rebecca and I have continued to discuss and iterate on our approach to charitable giving and I think we have something that we are happy with.

Hey everyone!

If you think that life is meritocratic, or your country, or your company, you’re likely to believe that outcomes are strictly due to skills.

If you talk to a corporate patent attorney about why the company files patents, you may hear things about building a defensive portfolio, creating valuable long-term assets, or protecting key developments from exploitation by competitors.

Friends; after four great years at Google and before that a year and a half of great times at Facebook it is time for me to return to startup-world.

A coworker of mine recently wrote to me asking for advice on how I take notes.

When about two years ago my dad was diagnosed with the prostate cancer that ended up killing him, we had no idea what to do.

aka "Building Great First Party Tools"...

It’s easier to give advice than to follow it!

It’s difficult to predict the future.

I gave a colleague a practice interview today.

This is my first time with an Apple Watch of any sort; my last smartwatch was a Pebble which was helpful but utilitarian.

I have seen large and well-funded organizations use their social and monetary capital to acquire large and highly experienced teams.

I’m feeling baffled.

It was a generation ago that Marshall McLuhan noted that the medium was the message.

Your heroes are more flawed than you realize, Your enemies, more noble....

Today I got a number of pretty questionable “friend requests” from young females on Facebook with zero mutual friends and with very racy profile pics.

Stuff I wish I could have read about before becoming a dad....

I’m a Senior Product Manager at Google and was also a PM at Facebook.

We voted!

We voted!

Many people seem broadly nervous to write about their own personal political platform stances which may be nuanced and not in alignment with any one party or candidate, instead preferring to stump for a party and candidate and re-share uncritical pro/con…

How I vetted and dumped a startup idea in ~20 hours and for under $1000....

for Investors & Startups, by David E.

Summary: Don’t ever put money into LendingClub.

Equity compensation at several public companies like Google and Facebook is in the form of direct stock grants, yes.

While this article correctly notes that a little negotiation at onboarding can result in significant gains, there are some serious errors in the suggested approach....

Looking back over the past twenty years here in Silicon Valley there have been some remarkable transformations in how knowledge worker labor has been priced....

I’ve had a number of folks ask me about the macro markets and if that should change their stance on angel investing or their startup.

Mildly technical post about Internet performance in emerging markets....

Keynote speech given to kick off Hack Generation Y on January 24, 2015...

One of the benefits of aging is that we get to discover the products that we really like; we’ve had the chance to try out lots of different things and so we can be sure of our preferences.

A few months ago I installed iOS8 on my iPhone 5.

Oh, Foursquare.

Oh, Foursquare....

> You’ve built a great product.

Current display technology, using HDMI 1.4, can only do 4K at 30fps.

9am, Facebook Headquarters: Cafe 18.

How do people come to believe a thing?

Unsolicited calls from a tech recruiter are one of the banes of existence of a technologist with a LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile that has been anything close to meaningfully filled out.

Written as a Thanksgiving present for Kate Compton...

One month ago1, we started working on our newest idea, connecting extended families through sharing.

As posted on the Gaston Labs Tumblr1:...

Much1 has2 been3 said4 about the classic "Hacker + Hustler" dynamic, but I think a lot of the discussion misses the subtly of what both bring to the table and some of the other critical archetypes that need to be filled in a successful startup like the De…

Here's a bold bet for the century: manufacturing will return to the U.S....

In this talk for StartupMonthly1&8216;s Demo Day I outline the analogies between hacking together software not the malicious sort!

In this video, I walk folks at Blackbox1 through my Guide to Stock & Options2 and the ins and outs of founder stock, options, term sheets, and more....

A funny thing happens to technical founders: as the company you built takes off and a proper Engineering Team develops, you find yourself doing less and less code.

This recorded talk comes courtesy The Founder Institute1, where I am a mentor....