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MY ROLE AS A FOUNDER CTO: YEAR SEVEN

Miguel Carranza, founder of RevenueCat, writes a post every year looking back over the last twelve months. 2024 was a good year for RevenueCat, possibly its best since 2020. While the journey was a lot rockier than Carranza had imagined, it was clear the company succeeded in its goals. The post discusses the company's performance last year, the lessons it learned (on culture, hiring, company building, and scaling as a founder), and its plans for the future.

THE NEW $30,000 SIDE HUSTLE: MAKING JOB REFERRALS FOR STRANGERS

There's a growing underground market connecting job seekers to anonymous company insiders willing to help them get a foot in the door. While a referral is not a guarantee of a job offer, it can substantially improve the odds. There are several sites available that let people get in touch with verified employees of their target employer to discuss job referral opportunities. Many companies say that this is completely fair practice, but others, like Google and Goldman Sachs, disagree.

LINUX FOUNDATION BANDS TOGETHER CHROMIUM BROWSER MAKERS IN A “NEUTRAL SPACE”

'Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers' is an initiative started by the Linux Foundation that will provide funding and development support for industry leaders, academia, developers, and the broader open source community working on open Chromium projects. It will have an open governance model based on transparency, inclusivity, and community-driven development. Google has slowly loosened its control over the Chromium project over the years, allowing outside developers into its leadership, softening its stance on non-Google-derived features, and opening up its 'Goma' development scheme for Chromium.

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