QSBS & Private Company Compensation: Webinar (4/16/26)
May 7, 2026 Adapted from a Thelander lunch-and-learn with Jodie Thelander (J. Thelander Consulting) and Alessandro, founder & CEO of GetDynasty (and the first sales hire at Carta). For founders and early employees at private companies, QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock) can turn a life-changing exit into a largely tax-free one — but only if […]
Carried Interest & QSBS: How Investment Firm Professionals Can Maximize Wealth Creation
May 7, 2026 Adapted from a Thelander webinar with Jodie Thelander (J. Thelander Consulting) and Al Chesser of GetDynasty, a licensed Nevada trust company specializing in QSBS (Section 1202) planning. For investment firm professionals, carried interest is where the wealth is created — and QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock) is one of the most powerful, […]
Private Company Compensation & Wealth Management | For Startup Founders & Executives
June 30, 2026 Adapted from a Thelander webinar with Jodie Thelander (J. Thelander Consulting) and Christine Le Young Connors, co-founder of Veritas Strategic Wealth Partners and a 22-year veteran of JP Morgan’s private bank. For a founder or executive at a private company, compensation and wealth management are two halves of the same problem. What […]
The Founder’s Guide to Talent, Capital & Compensation
June 30, 2026 Adapted from a Thelander panel, “The Founder’s Guide to Capital, Talent & Compensation,” with Jodie Thelander (J. Thelander Consulting), Chris (Perceptive Advisors), and Ellen & Joanna (JM Search biopharma executive search). For a founder, compensation and capital are the same conversation. How much you raise, how you build your team, and how […]
Thelander Venture Capital & Private Equity Compensation Panel Webinar with Cooley
June 30, 2026 Adapted from a Thelander webinar with Jodie Thelander (J. Thelander Consulting) and Rachel, a fund-formation partner at Cooley. Investment firm compensation is shaped by forces that look a lot like the private markets themselves right now: capital concentrating in fewer, larger funds, liquidity taking longer to arrive, and carry structures stretching out […]
Private Company (Startup) Compensation: Equity 101
June 30, 2026 Adapted from a Thelander “Comp Talks” lunch-and-learn with Jodie Thelander (J. Thelander Consulting) and Ally Marada, Partner in the Compensation & Benefits practice at Cooley. Getting equity compensation right is one of the highest-leverage decisions a private company makes — and one of the easiest to get wrong. In a recent 30-minute […]
What Determines the Size of a VC’s Carry Pool?
Carried Interest: How Much You Put In = How Much You Get Out Let’s level-set before we begin: Carried interest percentages for individual investment professionals are calculated as a share of the total GP carry pool. The pool is what determines how much carry each individual receives. The pool is traditionally an 80/20 split, where […]
How Much to Compensate Independent Board Members at Startups
One of the questions we get asked on a weekly basis is 1. Does Thelander have comp data for non-investor / independent board members? and 2. How much do they make? Since we ran an exclusive analysis for Halle Tecco’s latest post on “What Independent Board Members Do (And How They’re Compensated”, we wanted to share the […]
Startup Compensation Benchmarks: The 7 Hires You Need to Get Right
A few weeks ago, we read an a16z newsletter on the “7 hires a hardware startup needs to get right” that outlined the seven functions (besides engineering) that determines whether a “great product ever becomes a great business.” Which include: Manufacturing, Deployments, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, Policy and Marketing. And while the piece described how to find […]
What does a Chief of Staff make at Venture Capital firms?
If you’ve been scrolling LinkedIn and you’re in the private capital market, chances are you’ve seen firms hiring for a Chief of Staff (CoS). Since we added the title into the Thelander-PitchBook Investment Firm Compensation Survey in 2023, not only have we seen the number of respondents surge, but the compensation too. At what point […]