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by vegabook 3528 days ago
You need to recalibrate your sense of scale when moving from equity micro to global macro. We're not in the domain of some tech startup. We're talking a venture that takes on the global money supply, 1% of which is 500 billion dollars. Your analogy is way out by at a minimum two orders of magnitude, and probably four. 0.02% of market share in the world of fiat currency is called wild success = bitcoin. Think about that before implying that 1% and 10% numbers are reasonable. Saudi Aramco is worth 4%. Apple is 1%. The whole of IBM is 0.3%.

What you're basically doing is analogous to applying planet scales to a galaxy.

Even accounting for miniscule market share, 10% "founders reward" for any venture targeting global money, is a ludicrously large sum and a strong signal of probable charlatanry.