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The Layers Framework
As your company grows, you tend to add people in “layers”.
- The top layer is the first founder or founders. There may be 1, 2, 3, or more of you, but you all start working at the same time, and you all take the same risk.
- The second layer is the first real employees. By the time you hire this layer, you’ve got cash coming in from somewhere (investors or customers — doesn’t matter). These people didn’t take as much risk.
- The third layer is later employees. By the time they joined the company, it was going pretty well.
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The general principles of equity awards
Giving equity to employees means making them shareholders, aka owners of the business. Some things to consider:
- Cover the downside: schematically, equity should cover at least the opportunity cost taken by founders and employees when they accept a discount on the salar...
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How much equity should you give?
Equity offering needs to be adapted to your market, the profiles and company culture.
The equity package is depending on several variables, but it is mostly linked to the attractivity of your company, how strategic a position is, how hard a candidate is to attract ...
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