One of the strategies to create a founder-friendly company is to ensure that the founders retain majority ownership of the company shares. This can be achieved by carefully managing the company's Capitalization Table (Cap Table), which lists all the owners of a company and the percentage of the company each owns. For instance, the founders of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, created a founder-friendly company by ensuring they retained majority ownership of the company shares in their cap table.
Ever wondered why some companies stay under the control of their founders, while others shift into t...
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