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Carta
Company blog · carta.com/blogbusinessstartups
Carta is the company blog at carta.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2017, 81 different Hacker News readers have linked it 120 times, most often “How to Hire”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Carta's learning pages and blog on equity topics such as stock options, tender offers, founder stock and 90-day exercise windows. Carta also appears often in 'Who is hiring' posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Carta’s ERP for private capital combines software and services to deliver connected clarity and control across equity, fund, and portfolio management.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Hire6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-02-28
- The state of startup compensation, H1 20224 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-07-04
- /3 people · 29 mentions · first linked 2018-04-02
- /blog/equity-101-exercising-and-taxes/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-18
- State of Private Markets: Q3 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-18
- /blog/pte-90-day-window/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-11
- State of startup compensation, H2 20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-12
- What does it mean to exercise your stock options?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-30
- How to Hire (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-29
- Equity 101 Part 1: Startup employee stock options2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-21
What Hacker News says?
There are only ~2300 Series C companies. You're going to need to be this size to have a ~$100M+ exit. There's about ~5 years between funding Series C and Series D [1]. Only ~55 Series C companies got funding in Q1 [2]. Only ~39 Series D companies got funding in Q1 [1]. You're going to have a MAX of about ~.7 * ~2300 * 1/5 = ~322 successful > $100M VC exits per year. Ultimately, you really need to IPO to have a succe…
Comment linking /blog/state-of-private-markets-q3-2023/
on “Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity”Submitted Show HN: Launch – A free fundraising and equity management platform as a story · 36 points
HN discussionWe’d usually point people here to get a better overview of how options work: https://carta.com/learn/equity/stock-options/
Comment linking /learn/equity/stock-options/
on “OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?”Submitted The state of startup compensation, H1 2022 as a story · 31 points
HN discussionCarta (formerly eShares) | ONSITE (WFH for now) | Full-time | https://carta.com | NYC - New York, NY Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership. We help 10k+ privately held companies and a growing number of public companies track who owns what. We're a series E company and offer very competitive benefits packages (equity, free lunch, 401K, fully subsidized personal healthcare, transportation and cell pho…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Average salary ranges in NYC: Engineering, product, customer success as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttps://carta.com/ is most of the way there.
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on “No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This”Submitted How a Y Combinator founder maintained a cap table that was 50 percent women as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGood companies will often let early employees cash out in whole or in part with a "Tender Offer". https://carta.com/blog/tender-offer-faq/ This can benefit the founders and major investors, because they take less dilution. Personally, I think founders should do this any time they take money off the table.
Comment linking /blog/tender-offer-faq/
on “Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad”Submitted Venture Funds for the Modern Era as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFounder stock almost always convert to common not preferred. Carta article about it: https://carta.com/learn/startups/equity-management/founder-s... I recommend researching a topic at least a little bit before going on and commenting on it
Comment linking /learn/startups/equity-management/founder-shares/
on “Open guide to equity compensation”Submitted State of employee stock option exercise in 2020 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCarta (formerly eShares) | ONSITE | Full-time | https://carta.com | NYC - New York, NY Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership through corporate governance. We help 7,000+ privately held companies and a small (growing) number of public companies track who owns what. We're growing rapidly and are hiring across the board. We're building out a new team in our New York, NY (NYC) office to handle publicly…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted State of startup compensation, H2 2023 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are two types of options, NSO and ISO. You want ISO as an employee because it's better for taxes, but that has a 90-day exercise window set by the IRS. You can push for yourself paying higher taxes in exchange for more flexibility, but it's a tradeoff. https://carta.com/blog/pte-90-day-window/
Comment linking /blog/pte-90-day-window/
on “Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally”Submitted Fundraising and Exits Modelling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCarta | ONSITE (WFH for now) | Full-time | https://carta.com | NYC - New York City, NY Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership. We help 15k+ privately held companies and a growing number of public companies track who owns what. We're a series F company ($3+ billion valuation) and offer very competitive benefits packages (equity, free lunch, 401K, fully subsidized personal healthcare, transportation an…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted QSBS stacking and packing: A founder's exit strategy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCarta (formerly eShares) | ONSITE | Full-time | https://carta.com | NYC - New York, NY Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership through corporate governance. We help 7,000+ privately held companies and a growing number of public companies track who owns what. We're a series D company and offer very competitive benefits packages (equity, 401K, fully subsidized personal healthcare, transportation and cel…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted State of Private Markets: Q2 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCarta (formerly eShares) | ONSITE | Full-time | https://carta.com | NYC - New York, NY, SF - San Francisco, PA - Palo Alto Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership through corporate governance. We help 7,000+ privately held companies and a small (growing) number of public companies track who owns what. We're growing rapidly and are hiring across the board. We're building out a new team in our New York,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted State of Private Markets: Q1 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCarta | ONSITE (WFH for now) | Full-time | https://carta.com | NYC - New York City, NY Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership. We help 10k+ privately held companies and a growing number of public companies track who owns what. We're a series E company and offer very competitive benefits packages (equity, free lunch, 401K, fully subsidized personal healthcare, transportation and cell phone allowances,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted Carta – State of Private Markets: Q4 2022 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCarta (formerly eShares) | ONSITE | Full-time | https://carta.com | NYC - New York, NY , SF - San Francisco , PA - Palo Alto, CA , SEA - Seattle, WA Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership through corporate governance. We help 7,000+ privately and publicly held companies track who owns what. We're growing rapidly and are hiring across the board. --------------------------------------------- Senior+ fu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted The Next Evolution of Carta as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCarta | ONSITE (WFH for now) | Full-time | https://carta.com | NYC - New York City, NY Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership. We help 10k+ privately held companies and a growing number of public companies track who owns what. We're a series E company and offer very competitive benefits packages (equity, free lunch, 401K, fully subsidized personal healthcare, transportation and cell phone allowances,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Submitted State of Private Markets: Q2 2022 [carta] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCarta | SF, Palo Alto, Seattle, NYC | https://carta.com/ Who we are: * We're one of the fastest growing B2B SaaS businesses in the world and our footprint is increasing exponentially. * Carta builds the network graph of equity assets (private and public) ownership. We currently help 7,000+ privately held companies and their investors manage their equity assets. Opportunities: Staff Architect - https://jobs.lever.co/…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Carta: The state of startup compensation, H1 2022 as a story · 2 points
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