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		dadrian on April 14, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Has anyone quit their startup (VC-backed) ... If you can't do 10 up front, you can usually reset founder vesting back every funding round to slow it down. This is fairly common.

tptacek on April 14, 2025 [–]

You're counting on one reticent founder not jamming everything up, though.

dadrian on April 14, 2025 | [–]

Yeah, but this also offers a clear exit opportunity (during the raise), and limits the "blast radius" to time-since-last-raise, rather than progress against the first four years of the company.

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