startup employees

4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 19, 2018 by Ali Hamed · across every show →

Everything said about startup employees, oldest first

Feb 19, 2018 neutral

Assertion Contradicted

Hamed: Banks lend to founders but ignore rank-and-file startup employees

“Banks have provided liquidity to founders all the time with PGs, but there's no one who's really been serving employee 20 through 2000.”

Ali Hamed Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 27:34 Ali Hamed - Novel Asset Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.40)

Nov 6, 2025 positive

Insight

Financing employee stock options creates proprietary data on opaque private companies

“If you help a broad base of startup employees, you will end up with a ton of differentiated data on private companies that may or may not be out there in the world otherwise.”

Dave Thornton Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 15:16 Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)

Nov 6, 2025

Assertion Supported

70% of startup employees abandon their stock options upon departure

“At the moment, around 70% of employees abandon their stock options, and employees tend to own 10 to 15 points of the cap table of a given startup.”

Dave Thornton Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 38:34 Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)

Nov 6, 2025 bearish

Insight

Startup employees frequently mishandle their equity and tax obligations

“If somebody with my background at this point in the game is screwing up startup equity, I'm sure your average startup employee is also probably screwing up their startup equity.”

Dave Thornton Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 4:26 Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)

startup employees

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