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How much equity for investors and employees?

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Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? How much equity should I grant to early employees? Founders usually end up with 10% to 20%, all the other employees end up with about 15%, and the VCs end up with about 60% to 75%. 5% Managers -.25%

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On the Road to Recap:

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While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. We have already seen examples of founders and management obtaining liquidity in front of investors.

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