E972 Robbed of Equity: Toptal with The Information's Amir Efrati & former employee Scott Ritter
About this episode
"Robbed of Equity": Toptal denies any shares to employees & investors. Amir Efrati of The Information on breaking the story, founder Taso Du Val's stock hoarding, unusual tactics & changing landscape of startup-investor relations; then former employee Scott Ritter on his ~8-year tenure, not receiving earned share worth $2m & life after Toptal 1:00 Jason intros the Toptal situation and Amir 3:00 Amir on breaking the Toptal story 3:20 Frequency of compensation issues in startup funding 13:45 Jason explains convertible notes 16:10 Did Taso Du Val know what he was doing? 22:00 How can Toptal inve…