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The Introvert Economy, the Case for Longer Founder Vesting Cycles, What Happens When Your Product Goes Viral on TikTok, and More [link blog]

Hunter Walker

Here the focus is on Pink Stuff, a British cleaning paste, which was #CleanTok mainstreamed to a quadrupling of revenue ($125m annually) and distribution to 55 countries. Many times we’ll never know, but the random products that end up popping because of a TikTok trend are always pretty fascinating anthropological stories.

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The New Deal – A Founding CEOs Value is Non Linear

Steve Blank

As a board member I negotiated with founding CEO’s over vesting when I thought it was their time to go. I’ll offer that both entrepreneurs and VC’s have the wrong model for founding CEO equity compensation. The fallacy is believing that a founders value is evenly distributed over four years. Preparing For Chaos.

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