Option Pool

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the a16z Podcast 20VC

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20VC Opinion
Browder: Predatory VCs act like sharks by demanding 15% seed option pools
“Well, the VCs always win. If they do a price round, some of them are sharks. They say we want a 15% option pool at the seed.”
Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 57:35 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Insight
Kupor: VCs use "made up numbers" to size startup option pools
“In some respects, these are kind of made up numbers by the venture capitalists, ah, but the kind of heuristic that venture capitalists often use to determine what size they want Is they're trying to say, look, when I invest in this company, I want this option …”
Scott Kupor Jun 23, 2019 ▶ 15:20 The Economics of Term Sheets

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