Danish CCS Ecosystem

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I think the founder ownership report is a good source for benchmarks. But otherwise I think there is an overfocus on startups in your source material – my interest is in big industry. It’s about

  • Minimising risk from a finanial standpoint
  • Fostering lasting partnerships and retaining momentum and how not to stagnate the development of the company by avoiding commitment to making good mechanisms that can help the company move forward.
  • It’s also about avoiding creating a bad reputation for your company where people see you as too slow

The thesis

Sharing ownership is not a concession – it’s the act that creates value. Every stakeholder you create becomes a node of commitment, effort, and network that compounds what you’re building. The founders who build something worth owning are the ones who made others owners.

… Securing partnerships (regardless) to enable long term growth … What is management is signalling

Outline:

  1. opening – The counterintuitive truth: the most valuable companies are usually ones where the founder owns less than they started with. (Carta data as hook)
  2. thesis – Giving up ownership strategically is the mechanism by which companies grow. It’s not a concession, it’s a multiplier.
  3. What changes when someone becomes an owner – The qualitative shift from employee to stakeholder. (Morgan Stanley retention data, NCEO productivity data)
  4. The compounding effect – Ownership + participation = 8-11% faster growth. Equity without involvement doesn’t work. (NCEO participatory management finding)
  5. Your personal observation – What you’ve seen across companies. The pattern when founders share vs. When they don’t.
  6. Why this feels hard – The endowment effect and loss aversion. Not a character flaw, a cognitive bias. Treated with empathy. (Kahneman/Thaler research).
  7. The nuance – Bootstrapping can work. Full ownership isn’t always wrong. The problem is reflexive resistance, not strategic retention. (Mail chimp example, bootstrapped exit data).
  8. The reframe – Don’t ask “how much am I giving up? Ask “ who needs to be an owner for this to become something worth owning?”
  9. Closing – A smaller piece of something that growth is worth more than all of something that doesn’t.

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