Craft Ventures
medium.com/craft-ventures · Company blog · on HN since 2019
Craft Ventures, a venture capital firm, publishes startup operating advice, funding announcements, and essays on marketplaces, SaaS, and policy.
What HN saysHN links it for SaaS operating guides, the e-scooter economics piece and the Section 230 essay; commenters call the scooter post excellent and note the firm's $1.1B fund.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
microdrum · 2020-01-09
Excellent post. This was obvious from the beginning and is causing a rerating of the vcs who invested in these economically and technically checkered deals.[1]
[1] https://medium.com/craft-ventures/the-other-electric-vehicle-revolutio…
sqs · 2020-03-18
Sourcegraph CEO here. We build universal code search for developers. Our team is all-remote (all countries and timezones OK). We're hiring for engineering, design, and product roles (+ others):
https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descriptions/so…
https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descriptions/ux…
and https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers#readme for a full list of roles.
We are growing quickly and have not slowed down hiring pace (and don't plan to do so based on the Covid-19 crisis). The limiting factor for us is just ensuring we're adding engineers, PMs, designers, and managers in the right ratios.
If you are interested in joining our team, we would love to hear from you. Understanding the financial stability of the company you'll join is crucial, and as CEO I always walk all late-stage candidates through our internal metrics, burn, cash on hand, etc. We are doing very well and just announced a $23M Series B 2 weeks ago (https://medium.com/craft-ventures/why-we-invested-in-sourcegraph-5ace2…
boeingUH60 · 2022-10-31
Sacks runs a VC firm with over $1 billion under management [1]…Staff Software Engineer is a big demotion for him, lol
1 - https://medium.com/craft-ventures/announcing-craft-iii-1-1-billion-for…
cypherpunks01 · 2022-02-05
It seems the real philosophical meat (or tofu, for vegetarians) behind this post is in the linked article:
"Section 230: Mend It, Don’t End It"
https://medium.com/craft-ventures/section-230-mend-it-dont-end-it-e337…
Which calls for corrections to the "liability shield" for platforms that host user-generated content, such that they remain shielded if they limit user-generated speech in line with First Amendment principles. The pitch is that 1A principles are more uniform and well-understood, as compared with each companies' own views on what constitutes "objectionable content".
nicksnyder · 2020-09-01
Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com) | Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Security Engineer, Product Manager, sales, legal, finance, and more | ALL REMOTE
Sourcegraph is building Universal Code Search so developers can focus on solving problems instead of struggling to find and understand code.
Sourcegraph search helps developers find and discover code by providing the ability to quickly search across all code using regular expressions and advanced filters. Sourcegraph code intelligence helps developers navigate and understand code by providing hover tooltips, go-to-definition, and find-references, when viewing code on Sourcegraph or on a code host (via our browser extension). Sourcegraph campaigns enable developers to fix and evolve code at scale by automating search-and-replace and running arbitrary tools across massive codebases.
We are a completely transparent company and you can learn more about how we operate by reading our handbook: https://about.sourcegraph.com/handbook. Technologies that we use: Go, TypeScript, React, RxJS, GraphQL, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes.
We are an equal opportunity workplace and our all-remote team is spread across the world. We embrace diversity and welcome people from all backgrounds and communities.
We just raised a $23M Series B (https://medium.com/craft-ventures/why-we-invested-in-sourcegraph-5ace2… and are growing our team to keep up with customer demand (some of our customers are listed on our homepage). If you want…