I believe someone setting up a way to broker first customers to become stakeholders in new companies for pre-paying for services would be huge. I've been in a s

I believe someone setting up a way to broker first customers to become stakeholders in new companies for pre-paying for services would be huge. I've been in a situation where that would have been totally warranted and valuable, but instead we had to spend months proving to that customer other ways that working with us was properly de-risked. They would have been happy to just take the risk if there was a plug and play model to reward them for it, and I think many other companies are in similar situations (depending on what part of their business you touch/would effect). Another model that I do not personally believe in but seems promising to others I respect is https://assembly.com https://assembly.com - they work to bring teams together to build things and have gamified equity comp. You can even go in there and squash an important bug on a project and get equity in the project forever (ostensibly) for doing it based on the "bounty" that is set.