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Scenario

How startup founders navigate their first compensation decisions

My co-founder and I bootstrapped our startup for two years without paying ourselves but now we have some revenue and we can't agree on whether to pay ourselves equally or based on our different contributions and it's getting weird.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transition from sweat equity to actual paychecks forces a reckoning with how to value different types of contributions and maintain partnership equity.

Your guide for this
Zera
Zera works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Labor economics — how wages are set?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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