Equity Management

Overview

Equity is the hardest-working tool in a startup's compensation arsenal — it aligns incentives across founders, employees, advisors, and investors. The mistake: treating equity as an afterthought, granting shares on napkins, and discovering during Series A that your cap table is a disaster. This skill covers the complete equity stack: cap tables, 409A valuations, option types, grant guidelines by role and stage, dilution modeling, and the tools that keep it all clean.

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