Marco Saric, co-founder of open-source analytics platform Plausible Analytics, discusses his equity breakdown with host Nathan Latka.
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“51, 49, 51 for him, I think there was some legal reason there was somebody needed to have a tiny, tiny majority, but yeah, that's it felt kind of like a fair thing.”
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Nathan Latka: 400 dollars per month?
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