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How Much Equity to Give Employees and Advisors
This guide gives you the 5-step system: qualify the grant, set your budget, price employees and advisors off data from 22,000+ grants, then paper it right. The calculator turns your numbers into the band, the share count, and what it costs you.
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5-step guide to qualify the grant, set your 10-15% equity budget, price employees and advisors against benchmark tables from 22,000+ real Carta grants, and paper it with vesting and board consent
Equity Grant Calculator (Excel + Google Sheets) that takes the role, stage, and your fully diluted shares, and returns the market band, the exact share count, every check, pool, budget, and advisor cap, plus the offer sentence written for you: "our band for this role is X to Y, which is the market median to 75th percentile"
The vanish test: the one question that tells you whether a grant should exist at all, before you talk numbers
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