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Kupor: Federal workforce will shrink by 300,000 employees due to DOGE
“We've done a lot of work over the course of this year, a lot of which was catalyzed by Elon and the Doge team. As a result, we expect probably that we'll end up with somewhere around 2.1 million employees at the end of the year, so roughly about a 300,000 redu…”
Cooper: 95% of Americans only access capital appreciation via public markets
“I think it's like, 95, 96% of people in the U.S., The only access they have to capital appreciation is through the public markets”
Cooper: Yale Endowment allocates up to 50% of assets to private markets
“Venture's probably almost 18, 20% of his assets. And then if you layer on other private assets, he probably has, you know, kind of 40 plus percent, maybe even 50% of his assets in the private markets.”
Four-year linear vesting remains the standard for startup option grants
“The short answer is I'm not sure there's yet a real change in convention. I think most people are still doing the pretty straight four years.”