Reference page for 2025-05-25 north star. Updated as new context lands.
Related: 2024-01-17 objection, 2026-09-17 open-source.
Cross-section thread: compressed compensation 5706. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Valuation → retro → interview. Worth a second pass; the valuation angle keeps coming back.
- Seed → postmortem → post-money. Worth a second pass; the seed angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.