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Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en... by ed25519FUUU on Monday October 05, 2020 @12:42AM (#24684617)
How do you express that as a percentage in equity? Also, it really seems pointless, because as they take on more funding guess whose “huge stake” gets diluted.
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Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en... by djur on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:30AM (#24684794)
And that's a risk that founders need to take into account -- that by diluting their early engineers' equity, they're risking losing those engineers.
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