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Max Schireson

Personal blog · maxschireson.combusinessstartupsdata

Max Schireson's personal blog at maxschireson.com covers business, startups and data. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Why I am leaving the best job I ever had”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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27mentions?
14HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in an Ask HN thread on whether a CTO should be the last one out of the office. One commenter cites a recent post by Max Schireson, former MongoDB CEO, on startup leadership.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Thoughts on technology and the tech business

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why I am leaving the best job I ever had
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-08-05
  2. The Challenge of Being an Introverted CEO
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-17
  3. Startup stock options explained
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. otoburb · 2014-08-07
    I hope you have the courage and conviction to stay true to your principles and see them through. Hopefully your startup peers (or at least the CEO) brought you on board for not just your technical expertise, but your leadership and management style. Being a leader means implementing policies in good faith while trying to tweak them to the specific startup's culture. Max Schireson (ex-CEO of MongoDB) recently stepped…

    Comment linking /2014/08/05/1137/

    on “Ask HN: Should a CTO be expected to be the last out of the office?”
  2. jasondc · 2014-08-05

    Submitted Why I am leaving the best job I ever had as a story · 257 points

    HN discussion
  3. meghan · 2011-04-23

    Submitted Want a job working on mongoDB? Your first online interview is in this post as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  4. mschireson · 2011-05-10

    Submitted A data modeling challenge: relational vs document oriented for modeling orders as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  5. mschireson · 2011-09-30

    Submitted Oracle does NoSQL as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  6. mschireson · 2011-10-08

    Submitted Interesting math puzzle - harder than it sounds as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  7. linhmtran168 · 2014-09-18

    Submitted Max Schireson steps down as MongDB's CEO and this is his resignation letter as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  8. arkham · 2013-10-04

    Submitted MongoDB CEO Discusses $150m Funding Round as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. mschireson · 2011-12-06

    Submitted Math puzzle - two mathematicians guessing coin flips as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  10. flourophore · 2011-08-23

    Submitted Startup stock options explained as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. mblakele · 2011-08-31

    Submitted Is RAM becoming a misnomer? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  12. mschireson · 2011-08-23

    Submitted Startup stock options explained as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  13. mschireson · 2011-12-21

    Submitted The obvious answer to this math puzzle is not correct as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. mschireson · 2011-04-27

    Submitted An even better way to get a job working on mongodb as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. lacorp · 2015-09-23

    Submitted Startup stock options explained as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. romanhn · 2016-10-27

    Submitted Startup stock options explained (2011) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. denzil_correa · 2014-08-06

    Submitted Why I am leaving the best job I ever had as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. wallflower · 2014-08-06

    Submitted The Challenge of Being an Introverted CEO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. gz5 · 2013-09-17

    Submitted The Challenge of Being an Introverted CEO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. mblakele · 2013-09-03

    Submitted The balance between delegating and doing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. mschireson · 2012-01-30

    Submitted Elections: just as irrational as human behavior in general as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. mschireson · 2011-12-08

    Submitted Every time the airbag goes off my car crashes? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. mblakele · 2011-10-19

    Submitted HP/Autonomy and Oracle/Endeca: Is everything now “big data”? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. mschireson · 2011-10-08

    Submitted Richard Stallman on the death of Steve Jobs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. jfm3 · 2011-05-20

    Submitted Answering Before You've Heard The Question as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. mschireson · 2011-04-27

    Submitted Measuring the success of open source projects – a case study around mongodb as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. mschireson · 2011-04-27

    Submitted Why Yahoo should spin out Hadoop team - but not how you think as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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