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What's a Cap Table and Why do I Care?

The cap table is a ledger of who owns stock in our company. If you and I are the only owners of the company, there are exactly two entries in the cap table.

Easy peasy.

But as the company grows, and we start handing stock out to more people, the accuracy of the cap table starts to become really important

It's easy now...when does it get complicated?

The moment we start handing stock out to more people than ourselves.

At that point, we start to run into keeping records of not only who we've allocated stock to, but who we may be taking it back from (former employees who may not have exercised their stock options for example).

The constant changes within the cap table start to become a bit more complex, and having an accurate ledger become...


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