A Cap Table, or Capitalization Table, has significant implications on the control of a company. It lists all the owners of a company and the percentage of the company each owns. This distribution of ownership directly impacts who has control over the company. If the founders, for instance, retain majority ownership of the company shares, they maintain control over the company's decisions and direction. However, if they dilute their shares through multiple funding rounds, they may lose this control.

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Enter the Capitalization Table – or Cap Table for short. A cap table basically lists all the owners of a company and the percentage of the company each owns. To explain how a cap table works consider another well-known company: Airbnb. Its founders, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, created one of the most founder-friendly companies by ensuring they retained majority ownership of the company shares in their cap table.

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