Author: Chris Lattner
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
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// FileUploader.swift | |
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// Copyright (c) 2015 Narciso Cerezo Jiménez. All rights reserved. | |
// Largely based on this stackoverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26121827/uploading-file-with-parameters-using-alamofire/28467829// | |
import Foundation | |
import Alamofire | |
private struct FileUploadInfo { |
The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http, | |
https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to | |
match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502 | |
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# 15564624 - what does the xccheckout file in Xcode5 do? Where's the documentation? | |
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Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it
Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)
import android.content.Context; | |
import android.content.DialogInterface; | |
import android.content.res.TypedArray; | |
import android.preference.DialogPreference; | |
import android.util.AttributeSet; | |
import android.view.View; | |
import com.quietlycoding.android.picker.NumberPicker; | |
public class NumberPickerPreference extends DialogPreference { |