Our goal with building this was not to be comprehensive, but to give founders and employees a way to have a more productive conversation about options and what they are worth. Too many startup employees I meet don't properly value the options they have, and too many potential hires don't negotiate for the right things, and wind up disappointed.
We hope this will take a small step towards correcting this problem.
For many years, startups have exploited the opacity of potential outcomes to trick employees into thinking that their equity is worth more than it likely is.
A couple of years ago, I asked AngelList's CTO if I could utilize their data to build something like this; he never got back to me, so I moved on. Really glad to see this project live!
EDIT: Just realized this came from the fine folks at LTSE. Awesome stuff, Tiho!
Tools like this are really helpful for startup employees. Thanks for sharing!
Looks like there are some hidden assumptions about liquidation presence etc. Might be good to add a slider for that. (My employees would do pretty well at a $25M exit!)
Hah. This is a good point. I was going to call you out for having barely any employees and so of course they'd do well. But, for anyone who hasn't tried this, if you give the hypothetical employee 10% of the company, they come out with $0 in all scenarios at a $25M exit on this tool.
And it looks like this is the slider you were asking about. ;) https://captable.io/
We hope this will take a small step towards correcting this problem.