Poston uses a modified Slicing Pie equity model with 2x hour multipliers
Daniel Poston · MVP Power: Found Tech Co-Founder on Upwork, $0 to $180,000 in under 12 months · Feb 9, 2022 · at 7:51
Daniel Poston discusses how he structured an equity split to merge an external development team into Interface.
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“Slightly modified slicing pie model where you measure how much you put into the business in terms of like hours and dollars. And then you convert that to pie slices where every hour you put in, you, it gets a two X multiplier and every dollar that gets put in as a four X multiplier. And that, Kind of normalizes everything. And then you can, it's a great fair way of distributing equity.”
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