Engineer Hiring Management Option Pool 
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. For example, suppose you're just two founders and you want to hire an additional hacker who's so good you feel he'll increase the average outcome of the whole company by 20%. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33
Hunter Walker
MAY 7, 2014
Whether it’s adding capacity to an existing function (#MawrEngineers) or bringing new talents onboard (“we intend to make our first marketing hire”), glossing over these bullet points towards the back of the pitch deck would be a mistake. I’m interested in not just what these people will be doing but how and when they’ll be hired.
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Hunter Walker
AUGUST 7, 2017
But employee option pool is important enough that I wanted to briefly expand upon my comment above. While you should expect these sorts of hires to take below market cash comp versus what Google is paying them, this tradeoff needs to be replaced with equity upside.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2015
How much is in the option pool? Well, if you have an option pool of only 6% and have many more execs to hire to build out your team you’re going to ask for more options to be created in the future. Option pool (likely dilution in the future, which is a function of a higher price just not yet defined).
VC Adventure
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
There are times in a board meeting when the CEO (or board chair if that’s a different person) needs to step in and say “we’re going to have to push the engineering discussion to next meeting; I need us to stick to the schedule. One of the key functions of a board is to hire and fire the CEO.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 16, 2010
Basecamp – project management. How do bootstrapped companies hire talent? Short answer: we posted in Craigslist for “Founding Engineers&# when we were starting and couldn’t pay salaries. 5 engineers. 1 CEO who doubles as head of product management. Github – version control. See also [link].
www.instigatorblog.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
I gave him similar numbers to what I had been given when I was hiring the first few employees for Standout Jobs. This is especially true when you think of a tech startup, where the first few hires are typically engineers/programmers. But I also told him that I though the numbers were wrong. .&# 1% is just not a lot.
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