The cap table can have sensitive information on it that might compromise employees and or investors or the founders themselves.

I don’t think being secretive about the exact details of the cap table is indicative of anything.

They should be able to tell you broadly how many shares there are and how valuable your equity grant is tho.

This is silly. You can literal export a high level view and change VC names to “VC #1” and employees to “Individual #1” and still easily relay the info that the employee needs. I don’t buy the privacy or security arguments.

The range in equity grants can still cause problems. The reality is exposing this information only works against you and limits your ability to negotiate with employees if you know it will be exposed to others.

I disagree completely.

That being said I believe company’s and founders should be as transparent as possible but sometimes that can come at a price and so it’s not ideal to be completely forthcoming.

The degree of secrecy also tells you how much of an owner you would be.

Honestly, it's easier to just avoid startups entirely.

The vast majority of them fail anyway, and it's a long shot to ask me to trust them not to fuck me over with equity based compensation.

100%

Working in a startup can easily turn into a rough ride - for not much benefit.

So you might just as well start a company of your own.

It sounds like you agree with some degree of secrecy and privacy in sharing the details of the cap table with an outsider (the not-yet-employee).

In my country cap tables are public information and I've never heard of a case where someone was compromised or otherwise hurt by this.

Do you see the irony in your question yet? =P

It’s not about optimizing it’s about cash flow. If you get a 500k mortgage today at the current rate of ~7% your monthly payment is about 3500/mo. That same mortgage financed 2 years ago around ~2% is a monthly payment of 1800. For the SAME house you are paying basically double the amount per month. This isn’t optimizing a few bucks per month it’s about not being able to afford the same house.

Every homeowner knows this and if they’ve ever had the incling to move int rh last year theyve done the math and realize it simply doesn’t make sense. People won’t move right now unless life forces them to.

When the interest rate goes up that fast existing homeowners are less inclined to sell because their monthly payments will go way up buying a comparable house elsewhere. So you end up reducing supply when it happens so fast and so much.

I mean, they could do it. But it would be wildly unpopular among that demo.

You must have a lot more faith in technical ability of the average TikTok user than I do :) I think they'll move to Instagram Reels.

Most people don’t even know what sideloading is, but more importantly it would kill the value of tik tok because the population would be gone and therefor the audience and the money.

can't sideload into iphone that easily.

Not on iOS, and CDNs likely will not be allowed to host content from TikTok.

I literally just wasted so much money on a logo. Coulda used this post last week.

I hope you still got something you like!

Well the opposite view isn’t really based on science , only in faulty risk mitigation. So is it riskier to let your kid go without knowing for a long time or is it better to test in a limited controlled window where you can react and adapt if something goes wrong.

We did the same. My wife was nervous but I’m like, it’s common sense.

We did hold off on honey until they were one due to the botulism risk tho.

In certain cultures of India, it is tradition to give a baby a drop of honey as soon as they are born.

The idea is you basically just touch their lips with a dab at first, so if there is any sort of reaction it isn’t life threatening. Then you increase a bit, etc.