Engineer Equity Option Pool Syndication 
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Precise valuations are impossible to determine because of adjustments to employee option pools, possible buybacks of common stock, etc.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
Some angel investors join together in syndicates. It costs you a little more equity, but being able to play the two firms off each other (as well as ask one if the other is being out of line) is invaluable. So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [ Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.
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