Buffer’s Equity Formula and Full Individual Breakdown (2014)
Here’s how that formula breaks down in percentage equity for each member of the Buffer team today (this is an abbreviated version; you can see lots more at our open salary and equity spreadsheet). (An additional 500,279 options belong to a small group of Buffer advisors and former team members who retain options from partial vesting.) What a team member actually gets when joining Buffer is a number of options in Buffer, not actual equity.
Source: open.buffer.com