General Catalyst reposted this
Equity compensation is critical for aligning employees with a company’s long-term goals and fostering a culture of ownership. Yet, data on equity refresh design is scarce. Key questions on eligibility, timing, and grant size persist among founders and Boards. We are excited to share the results of General Catalyst's 2024 Equity Refresh Survey which compiles over 160 data points on key questions including eligibility, timing, and grant size. The findings show that, in this era of capital efficiency, companies are judicious with equity dilution while still rewarding top performers. Highlights: - 87% of companies prioritize individual performance for refresh grants - 25% or fewer of employees receive refresh grants annually - Refresh grants are typically 25% or less of current new hire benchmarks - Nearly half of refresh grants have no vesting cliff Access the full report → https://lnkd.in/gruPasKh Please share how your company rewards top performers and issues refresh equity in the comments below!
In my experience, „equity“ is primarily used to lower labor costs. It would be great to see an analysis including compensation impact of equity grants. In an era where the majority of tech talent spends less than 4 years at any one company due to evolving business conditions or moving on, my bet is that the majority of employee equity ends up worthless on the floor.
All of Madrona's portfolio companies, especially CFOs and People Leaders - check out this amazing benchmarking survey from our friends at General Catalyst. There's a webinar coming up - please sign up!
Kudos Guissu Baier, Grant Rivas, and the whole General Catalyst team! This is a really impressive and thorough report, and I'm so lucky to have had a front row seat to see the survey design and data rigor you deployed in creating it. Everyone who manages a cap table/equity compensation should see this.
Well summarized. In my experience it’s also the toughest to secure from a hirng perspective for your team
Very well done!
Great work!
Very comprehensive, congrats Guissu Baier and team!
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3moA big thank you to Luke Beseda, Heather Doshay, Lorraine Buhannic, Kenny Mendes, and Peter Walker for their thought partnership and feedback!