No one has an obligation to help you This was hard for me to accept early on when I went to my past colleagues, mentors & friends for money, advice or time Many helped, but many didn’t It’s not personal tho, everyone has things going on. Your most important thing is not theirs

In the last 5 years, we’ve paid $3.9 million in profit sharing to the ConvertKit team. While most companies hope to return money to shareholders in a moonshot acquisition, we’ve created a unique model to help our team think like owners. Here’s how our compensation model works:

Enter the ConvertKit Model of Compensation: You need a well rounded approach to compensation. That’s where our quadrants come in: covering short-term vs long-term and guaranteed vs performance based.

Profit Sharing We want everyone in the company to make decisions as if they are spending their own money—because they are. 52% of the profit in the company is paid directly to the team. It’s important that it’s more than half. 8% goes in a bonus pool for execs & 40% to owners

Equity Having real ownership in a successful company is the best way to build wealth. But it can also completely fail. I’ve been on both sides. ConvertKit equity is 95% of my net worth, but an early startup I worked at failed and I ended up getting a payout for $0.68.

AngelList helped us put together a roll-up vehicle (RUV) that combined money from 48 individual investors into a single entity that purchased shares from team members who wanted to sell. The oversubscribed deal valued ConvertKit at $200M & 3.2% of the company changed hands.

Our plan is to do these rounds every 2 years so that existing shareholders (current & former team members + investors) can sell shares (or buy more). This allows us to plan long-term, but also give team members who want to pay off debt, buy houses, etc a path to liquidity now.

Carbon Fact of the Week: #47 That’s where the US #military would fall on the list of CO2 emissions by nation-state, if it was one. With 1.2 billion tons of #GHG emissions since 2001, the #Pentagon alone is responsible for over half of the US government’s…lnkd.in/gTaggkbY

Anytime I go abroad, I’m annoyed that America doesn’t force us as kids to learn multiple languages and teach it in a way that matters, not by memorizing words for a test. Speaking 2 languages is basic around the world.

Proud to #MakethePledge to join the @miamiclimatealliance ! #ThinkGlobalActLocal ! instagram.com/p/Cg9_ZShLdcG/…

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Join us with Opportunity Miami tomorrow to map our the miami #climatetech ecosystem! instagram.com/p/CibsrvbuHRE/…

Judging pitches today with the WBAF USA Country Office and @hbsclubofsouthflorida angels! Good luck to all the entrepreneurs today! #pitchcompetition instagram.com/p/CifVLqdLB5l/…

LIVE IN NYC for UN #ClimateWeek with rachel razor getting things done at the #UNGA ! instagram.com/p/CivhjmXOxpj/…

Meet us in NYC! Comment below if you want to partner for UN SDG Action Campaign ! DM to meet our team in person! instagram.com/p/Ci21J_aLzeS/…

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consensus is hard, not just for computers the real challenge for interoperability is the human communication (and ego), technical part is an implementation detail

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