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Comment by nathan_f77

I don't really understand why dilution is such a common thing. Why not just issue a fixed number of shares at the beginning and plan for future funding rounds? If I was a founder of a VC-backed startup, I think it would be much more fair to sell my own shares to investors, instead of diluting all of my early employees.

If you offer your first employee 1% of the company, but everyone knows that they're going to end up with ~0.3% after all the dilution, then just give them 0.3% and promise that there will be no dilution.

EDIT: I just got to the end of the article: "Finally, we structured our company in such a way that our tokens never dilute." That sounds like a great idea to me.

parent nathan_f77 7 years ago

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