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Zapier Co-Founder Mike Knoop on category creation, API evolution & AI architecture | E1769

This Week in Startups

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How to Offer Equity to Early Employees

Zachary Smith: When we first started the business, you know, we were three dudes from Missouri. We really had more of that, I guess ethos in how we kind of ran the business,. You know, we just didn't have the like Silicon Valley, like raise $100 million. That wasn't sort of our default operating tool coming into the business. And because we were able to get profitable really early, one of the things we thought to do was offer equity to early employees.

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