I think you’ve misunderstood the question. As I understand it, it’s not “is the distribution of startup values a power law” but “do startups distribute their profits to employees according to a power law”.
do startups distribute their profits to employees according to a power law
I hear that ownership is distributed roughly so that founders get 1/f, and early employees get 1/n^2, where f is the number of founders and n is the employee number (counting the first non-founder as employee f+1). (Both are obviously proportional; there’s some constant term in there.)
I think you’ve misunderstood the question. As I understand it, it’s not “is the distribution of startup values a power law” but “do startups distribute their profits to employees according to a power law”.
I hear that ownership is distributed roughly so that founders get 1/f, and early employees get 1/n^2, where f is the number of founders and n is the employee number (counting the first non-founder as employee f+1). (Both are obviously proportional; there’s some constant term in there.)