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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.
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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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