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Any list of milestones you draw up when you start a company is likely to contain things you mistakenly thought would be important, and omit things that turned o

• ivankirigin 18y ago
  Even if things are important, and the person executes well, and that business unit could get crushed by something unforeseen. To align interests, employees should have the whole company in mind, not just their personal goals to get equity.
• alain94040 18y ago
  Precisely. So the right solution is vesting, which is a way to say: a) today we both accomplished only 5% of all the work that needs to be done (that's Seth's point of view) b) there are many things that still need to be done (still in line with the article) c) we can't predict what else will be important, but we'll work on whatever needs to be done (that's where vesting beats Seth's proposal)
• jbarciauskas 18y ago
  This is why I find corporate HR "goal-setting" to be such nonsense. You set a bunch of goals, but then you have real work that needs to get done, that is probably completely different from what you thought it would be. At the end of the quarter/half/year, you look back at your goals and say wow, I didn't accomplish any of that! But you were still productive, in completely unexpected ways. The future is funny like that.