Equity Vesting
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
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Lenny's Podcast
5 statements about Equity Vesting, every show
Diller calls using unvested equity handcuffs for employee retention "ridiculous"
“I've heard a retention arguments from time immemorial, decades of, well, we do this to retain people. I think that's ridiculous. You retain people, people stay in your enterprise because they like what they do, and there's opportunity there. A handcuff, so to …”
Walling: Unvested co-founder equity makes startups unbackable
“Number one is everyone vests, even founders. So if you start a company with one other co-founder, both of you should vest into your equity. That just means that you have to work there for years in order to receive 100% of your equity grant. Usually it's a four…”
Walling: Structures early employee equity to fully vest upon a company acquisition
“When I have issued equity in the past, I have made it fully vest if we were acquired because I wanted my people to own that equity or own those options to be able to purchase the options. When the acquisition came through such that they were not compelled to s…”
Luc Levesque: Structure advisor equity with front-loaded vesting and three-month cliffs
“So think about it in terms of structure your vesting. Commensurate with the value you want, which is very much front-loaded. I'm also a big fan of three-month cliffs. Something I, I've done, I always do actually, is listen, in the first three months, you'll kn…”