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Equity is air until the company IPOs. Act accordingly.
I almost worked for mailchimp a few years back. Culture was ironclad. Their office is in a real nice building in Atlanta called ponce city market.
Few years later, the founder sold the company for $12bn after promising employees for years they would never sell. It was his excuse for not giving employees stock. The culture has taken a nose dive since then.
Don’t trust founders. The article is right, founders are not your friends. It should add “they are a business partner”.
If you’re not going to trust your employer/founder why not take a risk as she did and start your own gig?
“Founders are not your friends” is a blanket statement that is not always true. Founders take risks and create jobs, products & services that would not otherwise exist. Thank them for their courage to start what others did not. Yes…I’m a founder.
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I’m with SMB 100%. The thing that keeps me up at night is not the size of my paycheck (smaller than it would have been if I didn’t launch a company) it is the employees
The thing that gives me greatest joy is I created a business that allowed me to employ around 200 people over the years. They learned new skills in an emerging industry, supported families, and i watched many of them grow from entry level technicians to strong managers, some launching their own businesses.
If it was about the money I would have stayed in consulting.
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What happen at Toptal is even worse. https://thehustle.co/toptal-equity-convertible-note/amp/
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That’s awful. Not the norm
Also a founder, I know my sweat equity will likely never be paid back in full. Times when I may have folded, I couldn’t because of empathy towards clients and employees. I’m a better friend to them than some will ever have elsewhere. I don’t lie to them about profitability to keep them around. They stay out of loyalty.
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Thisxwill become more common as down rounds proliferate and valuations are not what they once were. Common can get wiped.