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Greg Lohman

Principal, Compensia · 1 appearance on the record.

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He advises compensation committees and leadership teams at public and pre-IPO technology and life sciences companies on pay-for-performance strategies and equity incentive design. Before joining Compensia, he served as an executive compensation consultant at Pearl Meyer & Partners and McLagan.

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2 assertions · 4 insights · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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256 words/min while actually speaking · 2.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Greg Lohman: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 2,458 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Greg Lohman is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

Everything Greg Lohman said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lohman: Early startup negotiations create five-fold equity disparities between identical roles
“And we come in and start working with companies, you might see two employees who basically do the same thing, and I have five times as many options as that other person. I mean, there are huge disparities, and that's just how they negotiated coming in and when…”
Greg Lohman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:38 a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation
Insight
Lohman: Stock options strictly outperform RSUs for high-growth pre-IPO startups
“There's really no scenario where RSUs are better than options in that model. And so from a pure upside, from a pure opportunity perspective, from a flexibility perspective, from a tax perspective, from an administrative perspective, there are lots of advantage…”
Greg Lohman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:55 a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation
Insight
Lohman: Startups must establish job leveling frameworks early or face failure
“And if you don't get that framework set up initially, you're dead.”
Greg Lohman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:11 a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lohman: Late-stage growth rapidly inflates annual equity issuance into double digits
“Relative to what's going on in an earlier-stage company that's moving along, but hiring at kind of a reasonable rate, I mean, you can go from a few percentage points of equity to double-digit percentage points of equity pretty quickly.”
Greg Lohman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:25 a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation
Insight
Lohman: Big tech RSUs function as value preservation, not high-upside returns
“We think of RSUs at a place like Google is, is value preservation, right? They're in a value preservation mode growth, but not huge returns, and you're giving an employee a share of stock, it's got value, that employee can look at that share and say, at the en…”
Greg Lohman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:25 a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation
What-if
Lohman: Incremental executive equity refreshes pass boards easier than delayed pool grants
“This would have been a lot easier if they'd been on top of this, if they'd been granting equity along the way, The numbers that they were proposing in the absolute were not ridiculous. If they had gotten there in stages, it would have been a lot easier.”
Greg Lohman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:56 a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation
Insight
Lohman: Startup compensation strategies shift rapidly in the 12 months pre-IPO
“A lot of the things we talked about with RSUs versus options, the foreign and a price your dilution, all those things are going to change most rapidly, in most cases, right as you go public, right in that stage. And You know, you hire somebody 12 months out, s…”
Greg Lohman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:30 a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation Jan 2, 2019 10m
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