jdmaturen

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

ericlevine

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pedro

Pedro's Amazing Guide To Rooftop Bars

Drinking with a perspective

Very few people respect the art of rooftop drinking these days.

Notably, rooftop bar customers often believe that wearing a suit or a fancy dress conveys respect.

redchair123

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briandoll

To toast:

• Make sure you have ImageMagick installed (brew install imagemagick)
• Change line 7 of toast.rb to the repository name you're working with
• toast!

$ bundle install
$ ./get_token [user] [pass]
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cobyism

// Highlight articles on/about GitHub
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  .css('background-color', '#ffff66')
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erikh

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calavera

1. Sign up in cloud.engineyard.com
2. Write your application
3. Push it to Github
4. Install ey_cli with:

gem install ey_cli

5. Run under the app directory:

ey_cli create_app

briandoll

Full Plugin List Deployed in Rails applications monitored by New Relic, September 2011

Count	Plugin Name
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2040	rpm
1534	newrelic_rpm
1268	acts_as_list
1186	paperclip
1130	will_paginate
1068	exception_notification

dylanegan

Douchecrawl: Not of the Sanitary Kind

Thursday 20th October 2011

Medjool (20:00)

Medjool is, no question about it, a hotbed of douchitude, from vomiting bartenders to actual video evidence.

http://www.medjoolsf.com/