Cap Table Founder Hiring IPO 
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 21, 2023
Before we get into a debate about how much a founder should own, there’s a context implicit in the question that is easily overlooked. Before we get into a debate about how much a founder should own, there’s a context implicit in the question that is easily overlooked. That doesn’t make you a bad founder. Did you spot it?
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 11, 2023
He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding.
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Hunter Walker
MAY 13, 2023
Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. I was on both sides of these transactions – buying startups for Google/YouTube and angel investing in high quality technical founders.
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 1, 2021
I never heard about giraffes after Google’s IPO, although reportedly one early engineer did buy a carnival-size ferris wheel. Some of the founders we backed in Homebrew’s first fund have realized — or will soon realize — outcomes that will net them hundreds of millions and perhaps even billions of dollars.
Altgate
JUNE 25, 2012
. —————– Dead equity — equity held by employees and founders no longer working at the company — is a large and growing problem. Facebook’s IPO minted many millionaires and even billionaires. Facebook’s situation is far from unique, even among recent tech IPOs.
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 26, 2022
Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected.
Altgate
AUGUST 25, 2012
. —————– Dead equity — equity held by employees and founders no longer working at the company — is a large and growing problem. Facebook’s IPO minted many millionaires and even billionaires. Facebook’s situation is far from unique, even among recent tech IPOs.
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