Seems like a solid plan to address issues with disparity in compensation &#x2F; upside between different tiers of employees.  It spreads the reward but still allows the founders to maintain larger ownership chunks, which is the important part.  Since equity is such a critical part of compensation [1], I’d love to see this implemented more, but I have a  feeling it will mostly get lip service with people hiding behind “this is the standard.”  Founders shouldn’t accept the “it’s standard” argument from VCs when negotiating terms, and employees shouldn’t accept the same argument from founders.  You can’t have your circular logic and eat it too.  Standards change and just because something is a standard doesn’t justify it’s existence.  Slavery was pretty standard for awhile and I’m glad we got rid of that one.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;the-wtf-economy&#x2F;in-his-essay-on-income-inequality-paul-graham-credited-me-for-pre-publication-feedback-ff8a0b295a1b#.okgzweqp6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;the-wtf-economy&#x2F;in-his-essay-on-income-in...</a>