• Monday

    • Private work.
    • Rental car. Hanalei.
    • More housing stuff, and some financials.
    • Levine posted about musk, drugs, and the linear/carta situation…
    • All mollusks (clams/oysters/mussels) can product pearls, but oysters most common. It’s the same material as the shell; they produce it to quarantine any irritants (usually grains of sand) that get inside. A small pearl takes a few months to form. A large pearl ~5yrs.
    • Tries, nodes for searching letters/words.
    • GMV = gross merchandise value.
    • QSBS = Qualified Small Business Stock. If you hold equity in a company worth less than $50M, those cap gains are exempt from federal tax (under most conditions).
    • IRS Form 83(b). Basically an election to pay tax on appreciating equity fully at grant, rather than over vesting schedule, as taxable value increases.
    • US Code Section 351. Contribute asset/IP to corporation with (subjectively) equivalent value in exchange for the equity, reducing taxable gain to 0. Must become controller in company (can’t do this for every hire).