What you need to know before you join a startup
I don&#x27;t really understand why dilution is such a common thing. Why not just issue a fixed number of shares at the beginning and plan for future funding rounds? If I was a founder of a VC-backed startup, I think it would be much more fair to sell my own shares to investors, instead of diluting all of my early employees.<p>If you offer your first employee 1% of the company, but everyone knows that they&#x27;re going to end up with ~0.3% after all the dilution, then just give them 0.3% and promise that there will be no dilution.<p>EDIT: I just got to the end of the article: &quot;Finally, we structured our company in such a way that our tokens never dilute.&quot; That sounds like a great idea to me.