Rethinking Equity Compensation: From Lottery Ticket to Financial Wedge

To benchmark offers, companies currently pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for manually collected annual compensation data; this data is immediately stale and often difficult for companies to put in their own context. Employees and candidates suffer, too. They are often left in the dark about how to interpret and value the equity portion of thei... See more

Does Management Use Stock Options Excessively? Even if they’re distributed beyond the executive suite, giving out too many options dilutes existing shareholders’ equity. If a company gives out more than 1 or 2 percent of the outstanding shares each year, they’re giving away too much of the firm’s equity every year. Conversely, it’s a great sign if

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Develop some sales/marketing team to deal with enterprise clientsFind developers that are willing to do the less sexy work of building an enterprise service business, likely via compensating them competitively with the private marketFigure out how to reward everyone proportional to their contribution if they do end up creating this multi-billion do... See more