Hey Codesmith, what happened to Parallel?

Yeah I think Eric is good intentioned, he just doesn't have the top tier, best of best experience he portrays in public sessions. He has good negotiation advice, but it's off the shelf stuff that is the basics in the top tier tech industry. From the people I've worked with navigating more complex offers, he hasn't had strong advice. One of his alumni had an offer pulled because they negotiated a non-negotiable offer. I don't know everything myself but I have enough industry experience to gently steer people through these conversations and try to help people not just negotiate an offer now, but make a plan for the next few years. RE: "selling his company to Disney". That is correct, he didn't sell it and shouldn't be portraying it that way. He in fact helped the final engineer transfer out his prized asset Coolspotters to a 3rd party that wasn't Disney and he's well aware Disney had no interest in his company. The main company's website was purchased by an adult-entertainment affiliate company. Not to mention that Eric left the company years before it closed (and remained loosely involved as board member, one of the two final engineers doesn't know who he is). What happened was that his co-founder, Aaron, previously left the startup and went back to ESPN (part of Disney) and as the company was failing and down to it's last employees. Aarron wanted to hire the final couple of employees so they "bought some assets" from the startup with the intention of paying back the investors and keeping positive vibes for his future. Eric was a part of wrapping up the company but did not join ESPN and was not hired as a part of this. Anyways, yeah I did a deep dive on this he has toned down the "sold my company to Disney" vibe since then, so I think we can settle this.