I have maxed out my 401K every mid-year since I was in my mid-20s and thought I was doing the right thing. What could be wrong with investing in the stock market sooner and getting a bump in pay when you max out mid-year? So last year, I decided to be even more aggressive and […]
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Download the 401K Employee Contribution Calculator now Ever wonder what the ideal percentage you should be contributing to your 401K is? It’s more difficult than you may think and you might accidentally be losing out on employer contributions. Things you need to consider: Employer Matching level (e.g., 50%, 100%) Max Employer Matching (e.g., 4%, 5%, […]
If you haven’t read Part 1 or Part 2 of this deep dive, I encourage you to read those as this post will leverage findings from there. As covered in Part 1 of this Pure Storage Deep Dive, the revenue per employee at Pure Storage has been declining. This data, along with headcount demographics also […]
Although Compuverde was acquired in April 2019, I have not seen any coverage over the acquisition price. I happened to stumble upon it while combing over the 2Q’FY20 Pure Storage 10Q statement so thought I’d quickly share with you; I really do need to find some late-night shows to watch; any recommendations? From Pure’s 10Q, […]
In Part 1 of our Pure Storage Deep Dive, we explored Pure Storage’s (PSTG) revenue, expenses, operating margin, and headcount demographics that details their employee base as never explored before (If you didn’t read it yet, click here). In this part (Part 2), we are going to dive deeper into what makes up Pure’s largest […]
Pure Storage [PSTG] was founded in 2009 and came out of stealth in 2011 as an Enterprise Storage provider. Pure is known in the market for early innovation around NAND Flash in Enterprise Storage Arrays w/ Data Reduction and a unique go-to-market strategy. However, now every vendor has Flash and Data Reduction technology, and has […]
Download the Excel-based Paycheck and Tax Forecasting Tool by clicking here For those that know me, one of my passions is personal finance (along with public speaking, influencing, practical applications of technology, data analysis, helping others). As I have grown older, I have come to appreciate the importance of planning taxes and choices around income/deductions more […]
About a week ago, askamanager.org (with 2 million monthly visitors) collected over 26,000 salaries from ordinary people like you and me. And Alison Green was kind of enough to share the Google spreadsheet of all the submissions. Although there are some issues with the data collected (which I’ll talk about at the end of this post for those that care), […]
