Early Stage Founder Vesting Hiring Management 
Steve Blank
JULY 19, 2010
The customary vesting model has founders vest their stock over 4-years , and when the founding CEO gets in over their head the VC’s bring in professional management. The fallacy is believing that a founders value is evenly distributed over four years. The New Founding CEO Vesting Model.
venturehacks.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
So can three founder companies (hello, @biz, @ev, and @jack). In three founder companies, the politics can be tough — gang-up votes, jockeying for board seats, etc. — but it’s manageable. When 4-5 founder companies work, it’s because two founders dominate. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a.
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