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Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data

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Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners was nice enough to compile some data on Start CTO Salary and Equity at Venture Backed Companies for the LA CTO Forum and present last year. It is interesting to see the salaries of CTOs of pre-Revenue even pre-Launch companies. He agreed to make this data public which is awesome.

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CTO Salary and Equity Trends 2009-2011

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Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners - a go to resource here in LA for recruiting C-level positions at startups - was nice enough to compile some data again this year (see last year's Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data ). Or they are looking at Hiring a CTO and want to see what salary and equity ranges look like. It has not.

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CTO Equity and Compensation at Venture Backed Companies

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It is interesting to see the salaries of CTOs of pre-Revenue even pre-Launch companies. Total Funding Revenue CTO Compensation and Equity based on Location A few items jump out at me in terms of CTO Equity and Compensation relative to geography.

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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

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Suppose further that he's going to cost $60k a year in salary and overhead, x 1.5 = $90k total. I've talked about this topic before in How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups. Suppose the company wants to make a "profit" of 50% on the new hire mentioned above. So subtract a third from 16.7%

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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The very last email I got from him told me the following: Thank you for your time Tony, I understand everyone wants a huge salary, no risk and a cut of the profits. You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone.