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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. The founders along with all the other employees would vest their stock over 4 years (earning 1/48 a month). Some founders have three-year vesting. So how did we go from VCs discarding founders to founders now running large companies? Some have no cliff.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

A community who vest their interests in each other. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet. It might just help them keep Starbucks out. It’s the community that matters more than the trader. This is the new collaborative world we are in transition towards. They are now changing into ‘Do Tanks’.

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