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Pieter Levels

What Pieter Levels thinks about venture capital

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  1. Our readingAbout 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.

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    Their wordsYou think this is crazy low but ~5% ownership probably the most common final % most VC funded startups will have when they work out, especially when you have a co-founder

    ↗5% ownership is probably the most common final stake for VC funded startup founderslevels.io