startup equity

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 29, 2017 by MZ Zaveri · across every show →

Everything said about startup equity, oldest first

May 29, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zaveri: Institutional seed investors target 7% to 15% startup equity
“There's a number of institutional seed investors and, you know, they're sort of positioned to want to take anywhere from like, I don't know, seven to 15%, right? With probably 15 being kind of the ceiling.”
MZ Zaveri May 29, 2017 ▶ 13:41 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
Apr 29, 2019 negative
Insight
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 …”
Sarah Smith Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 21:36 20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
Jun 26, 2023 bullish
Insight
Babayigit: Startup Employees Will Regret Foregoing Equity for Higher Cash
“If you apply any type of regret minimization, right, to this, I think, you know, you will regret not getting that equity for your sweat, blood, and tears.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:07:50 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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