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The above might be too far-fetched as it only applied to India? They did pay a fine to the regulator and resumed trading (might not be the same strategy though)

To OP’s original question, they made $20B last year and have a niche in several financial products


Yes, the fraud was done in india. Why does that matter?


“Banned from the Asian markets” was the original claim. The actual fact is: banned from Indian markets, with the ban now lifted.


Sure, so "its all ok now" seems to be the goto here. Who knows other shady stuff they had done / are doing.

A big wart on them, and the entire ocaml ecosystem.


Think there are many others (you mentioned one of them e.g., TGS) but they are not in the same league as RenTec's medallion fund.


TGS is comparable to Medallion. The two have competed for talent in the past, and TGS actually spreads higher AUM over fewer people. TGS just doesn't have satellite funds, so they're quieter.


hmm, I did not know that. Do you have some external links or returns to back this claim?


TGS is famously secretive. They went prop in the early 90s; no external investors. You won't find their returns anywhere.

The only public data available (that I know of) is related to their charitable giving.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-08/three-mys...


No public data in recent years but if you dig a little deeper you can find bits and pieces here and there about their past. Not sure what name they trade under these days because I can't even find a 13-F.


Does anyone know of any well known tools that generate bindings in other languages e.g., Python from C++ code?

IIUC, this tool does the opposite i.e., generate C++/other language bindings from Python


The entirety of cpython’s runtime is exposed as a C api, so you can easily manipulate python objects in c or any language with a ffi. boost::python provides a c++ wrapper for cpython, which can be used to call both c/c++ in python and vice versa


Curious, what kind of companies were these?

In my experience in the valley, almost all of the h1b's I have worked with are the smartest people I know from top colleges.


hmm, from what I have seen, $400k is usually their de-facto salary that gets junior folks (L4/E4) from F/G to make their top of market and move to NFLX. Beyond that, do you know how the comp progression is?


You get the option to invest any portion of your salary in NFLX stock options.


Do you mean pre-tax?


hmm, I don't think it is pre-tax. May be some NFLX employee can confirm.


Then it doesn't seem like a great perk, I can trade my post-tax salary for NFLX stock too...


This is from another similar post from a couple of weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762


Interesting. Do you happen to know if there is a formal process to do so or just an email would suffice?


Where is the co. incorporated?

No formal process.

If CA, write a letter and reference the statute: http://www.jerryburleson.com/shareholder-demand-for-inspecti...

If DE: http://www.startupblog.com/blog/shareholder-inspection-right...

Obviously DE is more company friendly than CA.

Your best bet is to: 1st) request nicely from the CFO some updates 2) if that doesn’t work, flex some inspection rights to get him to give you the updates.

You don’t actually want the inspection, and for me it’d take a court order before I allowed it, so your best bet is to play nice and be less of a pain in the ass to get what you want then litigating it.

Let me stress this again, you are a supplicant in this, you are far better off begging and cajoling and politicking with the CFO to get what you want if it’s important to you. You have zero leverage.

If I got a request from some random ex-employee shareholder requesting info, I’d say to them “see you in court” guessing that you don’t have the $100k’s in legal expenses needed to actually force the issue


Do you have any links to confirm the latter?

From what I have been seeing, the number of both Indian/Chinese students coming to the US for studying has gone down post the Trump administration. Also, I am seeing more Indian/Chinese folks going back home due to increase in engineering wages/opportunities. Of course, it's still not comparable to US but plenty-enough to live a very good life-style back home.


I’m not sure if it’s gone down during the last 1.5 years of the trump admin, but it has exploded in the last 10 years. Looking at the data. Looking at the change for any given year is a bit noisy.

China has really great wages for programming (I should know), but lacks in many quality of life factors. For example, many Chinese won’t go back once they have kids because of educatio, hukou, and pollution factors. They would have to pay a lot to get around those.


What was Github's current valuation? It seems that the last round valued them at $2b in 2015. Around ~3x multiple on the last round (~7.5b$). Hopefully, the employees are all happy!


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