Welcome back! In this episode of the EquityPeople podcast we chat to Christoffer V. Herheim. We cover a lot of different topics such as: 🚀 Optio's Growth Journey: From bootstrapped beginnings to a recent funding round in Q1 2024. 💼 Company's Evolution: Started as a service firm, now specializes in cap table management for listed and pre-IPO compani…

Join Natalie Pierce, co-founder of the FutureKind Collective, as she shares insights on creating company culture! 🏢 Learn how Natalie's background in economics and design led her to specialize in culture creation. Evident, right? 😂 Discover Natalie's improv comedy journey and how it fosters trust and creativity. 💡 Explore Natalie's definition of cu…

🎙️ Dive into our latest podcast episode with Eva Spexard where we unveil the secrets of: 🌐 Creating an inclusive equity scheme relying on extensive research and peer advice 🤝 Shifting company philosophy to involve every employee in the VSOP plan, fostering belonging and commitment 📊 Practical steps, including a Google Doc for insights and leveragin…

🎙️ Tune in to this episode of our podcast, where we explore the dynamic world of startups and the synergy between people and equity with Ian Whiteford. 🚀 Ian, journeyed from studying geography to Goldman Sachs and later joined the metaverse tech company, Improbable. Under Ian's leadership, Improbable scaled from 75 to over a thousand employees! 📈 D…

🎙️ Tune in to Startups, People and Equity as we chat with Jabu, an experienced Chief People Officer and consultant who has worked with companies like Nordstrom, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit. Discover her insights on taking risks, failures, and the role of a CPO in balancing employee advocacy and company needs. 🚀 Explore the value of communication, alignm…

🔎 Podcast Overview In this thought-provoking discussion, we delve deep into the world of startups, people operations, and equity. Our special guest, Chloe Paramatti, partner at Hyple, a prominent London-based consultancy for early-stage companies, brings her expertise in people operations to the forefront. 💡 Key Topics Covered - VC-backed vs. Non-V…

In this episode we chat to Zach Esrig from Assemble, a total reward and DEI intelligence software. Zach shared his experiences on: - tranferrable skills from consulting to SaaS customer experience which he nicely rebranded to deployment strategy - Current comp trends - His experiences with employee stock options (ESOPs)…

In this episode with Sara Brioschi we focus on getting the people foundations in startups right. We cover topics like: - Filtering through best practices to get to your practice - Embracing culture changes as your company grows - Getting decision-makers aligned on important topics Hope you will enjoy watching and listening! Sara's LinkedIn: https:/…

In this episode of EquityPeople we chat with two Ledgy employees who have moved from Customer Experience to the Product Management and Product Marketing departments. They share how they feel as startup employees in general, how the move was for them and of course what their view is on equity.By Špela and Tamas

Mitch is going through his second economic turmoil as an entrepreneur. In this episode he talked us through what it was like to wind down a previously very successful startup during the COVID-19 pandemic and what it is like to be the COO of an up and coming one right now. He speaks eloquently about not only the processes but how it was and is like …

Akbar is the type of person who you are really eager to learn from as he has his opinions fact-checked and backed by research. Not just stand-alone studies from your local journal of esoteric sciences, from meta analyses and Google stuff. He is also open to challenges, so he is just Talent Hall of Fame if you ask Spela and Tamas. What did we learn …

In this episode we get to know David who went from entrepreneur and early employee to investor and from the US to Europe. He talks about: - Airtable, Peloton, Uber, Airbnb, Sequoia, Benchmark, Lightspeed etc... - Esoteric SaaS - Running a fund that is not yet top tier and the challenge of attraction - His distribution of time between LPs, founders,…

Bradley has a talent for selling. He also invested a lot of time into educating himself of this complex process. Icing on the cake: he sells a software to help unbias your hiring process. We surely learned a lot listening to him, hope you will too. We chated about: - How Bradley got into sales from studying geography - Training sales people in a st…

Yes, Maddie is every bit as awesome as you’d think. If you’re in any way connected to the startup world, I’d recommend you listen to this episode. She shared her insight on a wide range of topics: Maddie’s thoughts on the current situation in the startup world: What has been Peak’s strategy going through the last years of high valuations What can f…

Did you know that Friedrich is not her real name? An impressive episode, tackling everything from: - working in a 3 person team to post IPO - attracting talent as a small startup vs a bigger, established company - changing the department's name from HR to People - successful recruiting practices - organizational structures - examples of great inter…

We're talking with ZS who has led talent departments in the public and private sector, and most recently at Onfido. Currently ZS is working as the director of people at the People Collective. In the previous episode, we covered everything from talent learnings, from the public and private sector, and also touched on how similar the people departmen…

ZeShaan Shamsi has led in-house Talent efforts for public, semi-public, and private space entities such as the UK government’s Digital Services arm, the BBC, and Onfido (scaled Onfido from 50 to 250+ people across 7 global locations). After this experience, he was employee #1 in the PeopleCollective where besides of course owning and developing eve…

In this episode we had the enormous pleasure of talking to Makenna Smutz. Makenna, is the co-founder at a brand new project called Wavr. Before this she was co-founder at Meeshkan a SaaS solution targeted at product teams aimed to ease UI testing. We talked to her about: - her journey into co-foundership, - challenges of refocusing a company on a n…

You can find Timon's two mentioned blogs and a brand new one via these links: - Psychological Safety (https://medium.com/luminovo/on-the-bare-necessity-of-psychological-safety-bdb34e311b8c) - Performanced-based hiring (https://luminovo.ai/blog-posts/why-we-banned-requirements-from-our-job-descriptions) - Good feedback (https://medium.com/luminovo/g…

By Špela Prijon, Tamas Varkonyi, Ling Ling Phung

Employee equity grants are a contract and as such have certain clauses that can seem tricky. However, as soon as they are understood, the clauses can help you negotiate and understand the consequences of your actions. Sources mentioned in the episode Almanac: Discussing equity with an applicant. https://almanac.io/docs/script-discussing-equity-with…

European startup ecosystem is booming and with it the innovation is following. The US has successfully awarded equity to employees for years, now Europe is following. In this episode we discuss how to judge the equity offer you or your friends received and tell you the questions you need to ask the employer.…