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Equity Calculator - Figure out what your equity is worth

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Equity Calculator is a simple tool created by Front to estimate the value of your startup equity.

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Hi Product Hunt! When you get a new job offer, figuring what your compensation package really means can be tricky. We wanted to share a tool we built at Front to help candidates understand how much their equity is worth, would love your feedback :)
This is great! You should partner with co-working spaces like WeWork, Galvanize, etc and offer this as a tool for all of their businesses that use their space.
Startup Shell will definitely be informing our ventures about it 😁
I think you guys did a good job of not diving into too many details. Sometimes the precision of equity valuation gives a false sense of accuracy. Adjusting the inputs and and watching the outcome change is a great feature that helps communicate how sensitive everything is.
Just saw this; lovely take on the SalaryOrEquity.com theme. Small world!
This is a very bad idea IMO and possibly opens you up to liability issues, if not at least setting the stage for litigation, if you don't make it very clear that this entire calculator is extremely speculative vs an expected outcome - IMO you should, at the very least, have the expected exit valuation scale from $0 and add some component of liquidity preferences (if not applicable now then at least show that they could be something in addition dilution to affect the final option value). Again, IMO I wouldn't even touch this outside of providing stock option plan documentation and suggesting the candidate consult an attorney/tax accountant to assess the "potential" value of the options.
I think the language here is rather clear ("this document is not a guarantee of anything", "you should consult with a specialist"). It's also the responsibility of each company to properly message the offer, but I still believe that this tool can be extremely helpful for candidates, if anything at least start a fair conversation with their prospective employer. You cannot expect each candidate to hire an attorney every time they get an offer :/
you can expect someone to hire an attorney when they feel misled or "wronged" ... just one person's opinion, I think the potential for a liability issue far outweighs upside in having an employer do the math, and I'm sorry, but if the downside is limited to a $10M exit valuation that is simply misleading and a wrong expectation to set in someone's mind.
Hi Alan, we just set the minimum at $0 :) Thank you for your feedback!
Any chance of opening up the code? I'd like to add support for other currencies.
Hi, sure! It's not the prettiest code but it's actually open source here
Neat tool! Far easier than setting up your own spreadsheet 🙌
This is awesome - very well done! I think it lends some credibility to early startups if they can point to an external tool, rather than only have their own projections. Of course, it all hinges on "expected outcome/exit" -- but the candidate can play with that and see the effect it has.
Très malin BRAVO.
Very useful. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing Mathilde
Thanks for making this, Mathilde! I think this is especially useful for women new to the tech space and as they negotiate their salaries. The more you know!
Cool! You should make the same service for founders :) You write your pitch and service using NLP calculates a valuation :D
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