Vaniver comments on The Importance of Sidekicks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: homunq 22 February 2015 02:30:14PM 0 points [-]

I think you've misunderstood the question. As I understand it, it's not "is the distribution of startup values a power law" but "do startups distribute their profits to employees according to a power law".

Comment author: Vaniver 22 February 2015 07:52:16PM 0 points [-]

do startups distribute their profits to employees according to a power law

I hear that ownership is distributed roughly so that founders get 1/f, and early employees get 1/n^2, where f is the number of founders and n is the employee number (counting the first non-founder as employee f+1). (Both are obviously proportional; there's some constant term in there.)