startup employees
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2018 by Dan Lewis · across every show →
Everything said about startup employees, oldest first
Mar 23, 2018
Dan Lewis: The best indicator of scaling is hiring your own replacement
“That is the best indicator as to whether someone's ready to scale with the company and step up and take on a bigger role and more responsibility is, are they able to step back and recognize that they need to hire someone to do their own job? Can they be comfor…”
Apr 29, 2019 negative
Smith: Startup employees treat equity as a lottery ticket with zero value
“If you think about how most engineers, or really a lot of individual employees in their risk profile, how they think about equity, if you talk to many of them, even the most savvy people often really think of equity as a lottery ticket. And if you think of it …”
Jul 9, 2026
O'Driscoll: Optimal employee equity timing precedes secondary tender offers
“The whole trick for employees, just like it is for VCs, is to join something that isn't doing a tender offer today, get a healthy grant, and join a company that within a year or two, when you've vested 50, 60% of your thing, starts doing tender offers.”