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I think you miss my point that the accountant is part of your team. They are doing more than just the job of accounting and help build the company culture. The

I think you miss my point that the accountant is part of your team. They are doing more than just the job of accounting and help build the company culture. The culture, teamwork etc. are intangibles that will make a big long term difference. You are certainly within your rights to decide to keep all the equity to a small number of people but you'll be building a very different company than one I would want to work for. For example, I am very happy that my Executive Assistant has options in my company. She's an integral part of my success and doing my job every day. There were lots of candidates for her job but we chose her. And I'll be ecstatic if one day she sees upside from having taken the job working for me.

dustinmoris 7y ago
> She's an integral part of my success and doing my job every day. There were lots of candidates for her job but we chose her. And I'll be ecstatic if one day she sees upside from having taken the job working for me. So why don't you give her that upside? As a business owner you can pay her whatever you would like her to see earn one day. Just do it, there's no inherent reason why equity has to be given away. Of course if you prefer to pay her a promise of maybe one day cashing out, but equally not cashing out at all, then I wonder if you really value her contributions today as much as you make it sound here. Honestly, people can run amazing companies and treat their employees really really well from day one, not one day when they win the lottery. EDIT: BTW congrats on the IPO!
- somebadguy 7y ago
  Sighs you're just an emotionally stunted asshole. Please fuck off