equity

“Generally speaking, we look for equity somewhere between 15 and 25%.”

“Was the finder able to pull in some high profile domain experts? So again, I started up a medical startup. Was I able to bring in somebody that is insanely smart in that field and get them to take a pay cut for equity? All of those things are sort of signs tha…”

“One of the important things to remember about equity is that it should be forward-looking, not backward-looking. So just because you started the company two months earlier or six months earlier or that it was your idea in five, 10 years' time will mean very li…”

“So pretty much all of ours are fifty-fifty.”

“Payroll is a debt product. With bi-monthly coupons, equity is a capital product, and in any economy, whether it's GDP for the nation or the Silicon Valley economy, any economy that's growing, by definition, equity accumulates exponentially, but debt accumulate…”

“So if you're giving out equity of your company, it's a one way door. You can't get it back. You know, oftentimes if you're hiring someone, it can be a two way door. If it doesn't work out, you part ways.”

“We see cases where actually, yes, today there's a company, but the real value clearly will be in the token. And actually you want the company to dissolve and not exist. So effectively you're going to invest in some equity over time. You'll get some tokens, whi…”

“In almost all cases, there should not be value accrual to tokens and equity. There are a couple of exceptions to that. But as a general rule, that is true. For teams that try and pitch you value accrual to both, it is almost certain that those two things are i…”

“Mechanically speaking, with a lot of the private round market deals that get done these days they're legally structured as SAFs, excuse me, as SAFs with token warrants or equity rounds with token warrants, but the primary asset that we believe will have value …”

“200,000 dollars of equity at Figma is going to be very different than 200,000 dollars at Maybe a small company that doesn't have a good chance of success. And is probably either going to get acquired for a nominal amount or just fizzle out because you know wha…”

“Even a small percentage of equity will be actually more powerful than sometimes a large amount of cash in, in some cases, right? For selected companies.”

“Nobody, nobody understands their equity and negotiates for it. Like in, in my career, I've had so few people actually read the document. I, I've probably had like a dozen questions and usually it's on page two of a 75 page document, right? So like nobody reads…”

“When it comes, especially to early sales hires, there's not enough emphasis placed on, on equity in sales. They give out equity for other roles. And I think equity is, is often something that founders don't really think of when it comes to salespeople. They re…”

“Incentivizing your team as much as possible on equity ends up being, like, the biggest lever you have from a cultural standpoint.”

“People that are way too focused on cash. Versus the equity. I do think that's more of a yellow flag.”

“As a rule, I would say, no, it's not required. I think it depends a lot on subject matter expertise. It depends a lot on also how you view the definition of what a co-founder is.”

“I think at the end of the day, for the most part, all VCs offer the same product. We are giving money and we are taking equity. What comes after that is obfuscated in a sales pitch.”

“The moment you are an equity owner, you have a K one in 37 states and 12 countries and the tax bill alone for managing the equity, tiny equity stake you have can be worth more than the equity itself.”

“If we would have known that we would have cut costs A lot faster earlier. We would have probably taken down risk a little bit. We would have saved as much money as we can. We probably would have raised equity instead of debt during the time when we thought tha…”

“I think we could be more appreciative of equity. Employees, a lot of employees do not understand equity as well as US employees.”

“And I'm with Jason, I'm about 75% equity, mildly terrified, you know, almost nothing in bonds and then rest in short-term and weird stuff.”

“No, I'm back where I was in 2008, a hundred percent equity in my personal position, a hundred percent.”

“If you're at a fast growing company that is doing really well, your equity is going to be way more meaningful than your OTE.”

“I think that it is, people say it's this sort of chummy, like, collaborative thing where we're all kumbaya and having fun, and then, like, You know, you get to it, and someone just, like, elbows you out of the way. It's not. It's a competitive market. We're al…”