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The Fair Share
Contribution-based equity, founder fairness, and the future of who owns what.
Chronicler of fair ownership and the founders rewriting the equity playbook
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Fair Share, we are looking at the longest possible tail of an undocumented equity promise: a twenty-year management dispute in China that just reached the courts. We also break down the e…
Today on The Fair Share: the US government just erased domestic beneficial ownership records while, in the same news cycle, a new tool hands startup employees the equity benchmarking data their employ…
Today on The Fair Share: a landmark founder-company settlement in India lands alongside a Delaware court opinion that every LLC-using founding team should read, plus fresh data on what bootstrapped fo…
The stock-for-cash bonus dispute we highlighted last week at SK Hynix has rapidly accelerated into a 3,800-member formal union drive. In a mirror-image negotiation, Samsung workers are simultaneously …
Three high-stakes founder disputes are demonstrating exactly what happens when the gap between an equity promise and its paperwork finally collapses. We're also tracking a wave of new rulings and case…
Two founding partnerships are unraveling in slow motion today — one via a forged entity dissolution, the other through a lack of backend administrative controls. Alongside that, new data is finally pu…
The most expensive time to discover a flaw in your corporate governance is right after the company becomes valuable. We are watching this play out across three jurisdictions today. In California, a $4…
When companies replace cash compensation with ownership, they are often unknowingly transferring market risk to their workers without an explicit agreement to do so. That friction is showing up everyw…
The legal distance between describing equity and actually protecting it is widening. A $25 million malpractice judgment just punished a startup law firm for blurring company and founder representation…
Today on The Fair Share: a sweeping Indian corporate law overhaul codifies employee equity instruments for the first time, a public company proposes doubling CEO pay weeks after mass layoffs, and Jame…