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Karl Sjogren

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Detroit, The United States

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https://www.fairsharemodel.com/

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I have spent more than 30 years as a consulting CFO in the San Francisco Bay area. From 1996 to 2001, I was co-founder & CEO of Fairshare, Inc., an online community of average investors that sought to make it less expensive for companies to market investor-friendly IPOs. A forerunner to the concept of "equity crowdfunding," Fairshare attracted 16,000 members and substantially more visitors to its education-oriented website before shutting down after the dotcom and telecom busts.

My April 2019 book, The Fairshare Model, is an effort to reignite popular interest in an investor-friendly deal structure for IPOs. It's name reflects its goal--to balance and align the interests of investors and employees...capital and labor. ...more

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Stanford Social Innovation Review publishes excerpt from The Fairshare Model

An excerpt from my new book, The Fairshare Model: A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings, was published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

https://ssir.org/book_reviews/entry/r...

The book is available on Amazon as a paperback and an e-book here https://www.amazon.com/dp/1950732002/...

The Fairshare Model A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings—Reimagining Capitalism at the DNA Level by Karl Sjogren

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“No cause was won that wasn't first mocked, no gate stands wide that wasn't at first locked.”
― Karl Sjogren, The Fairshare Model: A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings

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“No cause was won that wasn't first mocked, no gate was opened that wasn't first closed.”
― Karl Sjogren, The Fairshare Model: A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings

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“The Fairshare Model doesn't present a better way to value future performance at an IPO. It says, don't even try to project it--assign no value to it. Instead, figure out how to reward actual performance.”
― Karl Sjogren, The Fairshare Model: A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings

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“Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person in the universe getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“The men were perfectly content to fly as manny missions as we asked them as long as thought they had no alternative. Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“This arrangement, in which users take advantage of services and the company gains all the upside of the data they generate, may sound novel, but it is actually very old. Prior to the rise of capitalism, feudal labor arrangements worked similarly. Lords insulated their serfs from fluctuations in markets and guaranteed them safety and traditional rights to use the land and to keep enough of their crop to survive. In exchange, lords took all the upside of the market return on serfs’ agricultural output. Similarly, today, siren servers provide useful and enjoyable information services, while taking the market value of the data we produce in exchange. We thus refer to this contemporary system as “technofeudalism.”
― Eric A. Posner, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

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