a16z Podcast: Equity Models and Experiments

What it does

There’s been a lot of activity lately around trying to improve equity compensation (for example, by removing tax liabilities that handcuff them). Or by making equity more equitable in other ways; as former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason observed, “When startups grow into unicorns, the distribution of employee earnings follows a common pattern: the founders make more money...

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