SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Wilson Sonsini and DFJ Gotham Ventures : The Option Pool Shuffle : Title Range (%) CEO 5 – 10 COO 2 – 5 VP 1 – 2 Independent Board Member 1 Director 0.4 – 1.25 Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66 Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 I did find a few things for later points.

Early Stage 391

Early Stage Equity CTO Hire Sweat Equity 391

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 7, 2017

But employee option pool is important enough that I wanted to briefly expand upon my comment above. Since Homebrew typically leads/co-leads seed rounds, we assist in helping founders design and manage their pool against their hiring forecast. As you can see, Weekend VC Twitter gets pretty wild and crazy!!!!

Equity 94

Equity Pre-Money Valuation Option Pool Founder 94

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. If you’re a solo founder and haven’t built out your team or engineers I’m likely to want 15+%.

Pre-Money Valuation 150

Pre-Money Valuation Option Pool Post-Money Valuation Dilution 150

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. Most decisions are delegated to the CEO and management team. You operate your business.

Design 257

Design Option Pool Operations Conversion 257

Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2014

If you’re scaling a service, the difference between an average smart engineer and a few dozen people who have successfully done it before with Google, Facebook, YouTube, Dropbox is enormous. Accordingly, some of their capital raise was aimed at hiring two mobile iOS engineers. Sounds great. Will You Be Hiring for Culture Fit?

Hiring 108

Hiring Option Pool Early Stage Term Sheet 108

venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Don’t lose this game. share to $1.00/share:

Option Pool 68

Option Pool Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Warrant 68

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Basecamp – project management. 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. Lighthouse – bug tracking. Tender – customer support.

Option Pool 88

Option Pool Analytics LLC Startup 88