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"If you give a founder (or early employee) more than they're going to be worth in the long term, you'll feel increasingly motivated to fire them and recover the
by timdellinger 16y ago
"If you give a founder (or early employee) more than they're going to be worth in the long term, you'll feel increasingly motivated to fire them and recover their un-vested stock."
I'm surprised that I don't hear more horror stories about co-founders and early employees being kicked out just to get their un-vested stock. That's the one thing about 4 year vesting that always seemed risky to me.
- robfitz 16y agoYou have to burn a lot of bridges to do it and it leaves a mercenary mark on you and the company. I think it's more likely to destroy morale by making you bitter about each other's ownership than to actually get you to fire each other as an economic choice.