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Today’s tech founders who are lucky are getting huge pay packages. Plenty of small time founders out there who didn't start a unicorn.

Exactly…the packages that get reported on don’t get reported on for being the average or the median. They get reported on for being noteworthy.

The last good data I saw (which I believe was 2017?) had median founder ownership at large exit for VC funded startups as something like 11%

Any memory of where you found this data?

Blossom ventures…

When I pull the link it looks like they updated their data to now use ipo specifically. Of 127 ipo’s:

15% median 20% average

... and that assumes an exit. The vast majority of startups simply die.

Yeah but those don’t exist right! It would skew our distribution!