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Option pool

Shares set aside for staff options. Unissued pool shares carry no vote but count in a fully diluted figure, and existing holders pay for a pool counted before the new money. Solaris’s pool grew to 4,800 shares, including the Employee Trust’s 800. Clause 7 · Chapter 7

Explained in Chapter 7, Pricing the Round: Pre-Money, Post-Money and the Option Pool, of Venture Deals.

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