[PopeDotNinja]

> Because — and this is amazing — NO ONE at Toptal has equity other than the founder

Most businesses have a fixed number is of equity owners, including service business like Toptal. In most businesses like that, if you get any equity at all, it'd be unusual that you could keep the equity if you leave the company.

[dpiers]

Except Toptal is a “startup” that took $1.5mm in seed funding from investors like Andreesen Horowitz and promised employees equity.