[tptacek]

I'm sympathetic. We tried to get 10 year vesting together at my last company. But 4/1 is industry standard, and my rebuttal is that partners just bake 4/1 expectations into their decisions. If the partnership is uncertain about a member 6 months in, and kicks the can down the road another 7 months, that's on the partnership, not the structure.

[dadrian]

If you can't do 10 up front, you can usually reset founder vesting back every funding round to slow it down. This is fairly common.

[tptacek]

You're counting on one reticent founder not jamming everything up, though.

[dadrian]

Yeah, but this also offers a clear exit opportunity (during the raise), and limits the "blast radius" to time-since-last-raise, rather than progress against the first four years of the company.