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Archive for category: Stock Options
Why Should Employees Care About Investors?
Apple’s stock price is somewhere around $108 today. Over the past five years it has been anywhere from $50 to...
FABulous Pay Improves Talent Acquisition
How are great salespeople able to seamlessly turn every one of your concerns into a demonstration of the prowess of...
Executive Pay Has Been Fixed on Both Sides of the Pond!
In the past week there have been two major reports describing how to fix executive compensation. The first is from...
What Do You REALLY Know About Pay?
Before there were photographs, sailors would return from long trips and describe animals to artists who would then create “official”...
Evolving Equity Like It’s a Flying Machine
Other professionals in HR, compensation and investing frequently ask why I am so passionate about changing the way companies use...
Do founders with a16z funding agree with Scott Kupor’s post on employee options?
Question (Orig. on Quora): Do founders with a16z funding agree with Scott Kupor’s post on employee options? The Lack of...
LinkedIn, Microsoft and “Stock-based Compensation”
I just had someone send me an article titled “REASON BEHIND THE MICROSOFT-LINKEDIN DEAL”. The premise behind that article is...
A Small Problem for Compensation Professionals
This is not the article I intended to post today. I had something else ready to go, but realized this...
Why Equity and Not Just a Bigger Salary?
This February, the Harvard Business Review published Stop Paying Executives for Performance” by Dan Cable and Freek Vermeulen. The basis...