Noah Lapart

Nearly 85% of what you pay goes straight to your engineers.

Alcor's fee decreases as your team grows, and you can always bring the team in-house with zero exit fee.

That's why Silicon Valley startups, including Five Unicorns, work with Alcor.

Learn more at alcor.com slash podcast, or tap the link in the show notes.

This episode is sponsored by Equitybee.

Stock options can be valuable, but exercising them often means taking on real financial risk.

Putting tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket with uncertainty around the outcome makes exercising a difficult decision for many startup employees.

And that's where Equity Bee comes in.

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No out-of-pocket costs.

They provide non-recourse funding to cover exercise costs and taxes.

There's no repayment unless the company has an exit.

With Equity Bee, you don't leave your equity behind.

Go to codestory.co slash equitybee to learn more.

See terms and conditions in the sponsors section of the episode page.

That's codestory.co slash equitybee.

This episode is sponsored by Mesmo.

If your team is collecting large volumes of logs, metrics, and traces, but still struggling to get timely answers, Mesmo can help.

Mesmo is an active telemetry platform that processes and enriches observability data in real time before it's stored or analyzed.

That means lower data volume, lower cost, and faster root cause analysis across your existing observability tools.