Equity Distribution Quotes

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.

One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.