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Keeping your slice of the pie - The Startup Founder's Guide to Equity - Part I

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Yet equity is a word with two interlinked meanings: the right to share in a stream of profits, and the right to participate in decisions that affect your outcomes.

Umair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business

You want to own equity. If you don’t own equity in a business, your odds of making money are very slim.

Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

You want to own equity. If you don’t own equity in a business, your odds of making money are very slim.

Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Ownership can be understood as a proxy for two things: decision making power and financial power. This suite of benefits includes the ability to have a voice in the direction, strategy, operations, or fate of a company; as well as the ability to capture profits and the value of its equity and assets.

Austin Robey • Ways to improve the ownership economy — Mirror

Silicon Valley has known about the ownership secret for a long time: to get the best talent in the world to work for your startup, you need to offer equity. DAOs are the newest evolution of this Ownership Economy.

Cooper Turley • Full-Time DAOs

here: sharing equity is the best motivator. Founders already have their shares; VCs have our preferred shares. Another pool, the option pool, is set aside for key future hires, often representing 10-20% of the total shares after the investment.

Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist

The ownership economy doesn’t always mean a literal distribution of tokens, stock options, or equity. Rather, it means that ownership — which may manifest in the form of novel economic rewards, platform governance, or new forms of social capital — can be a new keystone of user experiences, with plenty of design space to explore. - Jesse Walden