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– November 20, 2025 @ 2:00 PM ET –

Managing Early Equity

With Forecastr

Get early equity right: learn equity splits, stock grants, vesting schedules, and key filings to protect your company and build a fair cap table.

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Increase your confidence as a founder.

 

Join us for this interactive and educational presentation.

 

How you structure and distribute early equity shapes the future of your company. From founder splits to advisor grants, making the right decisions early on prevents costly mistakes and ensures you’re rewarding your team fairly.

In this session, we’ll break down how to issue equity to founders and early contributors, when to use common stock vs. options, what filings you must complete, and how to choose appropriate vesting schedules. You’ll also learn about important tax considerations that can significantly impact your ownership.

This will be an hour long presentation with a Q&A session at the end.

What To Expect:

✔ How to split equity across the founding team

✔ When to grant common stock or options

✔ Required filings for granting stock

✔ What are common vesting schedules and for which kinds of roles

✔ Interactive Q&A with real-time audience questions

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Featured Speaker

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Ryan Nash

COO

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Ryan Nash is the Chief Operating Officer at Gust, where he leverages his background in software development and leadership to drive innovation and scalability. With prior experience leading development teams at Boeing, he brings deep expertise in Agile methodologies and building high-performing technical teams. Passionate about balancing technology, people, and vision, Ryan is committed to creating sustainable impact and fostering continuous growth.

Featured Speaker

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Tom Matta

Partnerships Manager

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Tom Matta is a Partnerships Manager at Forecastr, a leading software company that helps make financial modeling easy for founders raising capital. He was an early team member at Carta (#12) and helped scale the company through its first 1,000 employees. Tom has also co-founded ventures and worked in the web3 space. He is passionate about startups and enjoys working with founders and mentoring entrepreneurs.