OwnershipEquity & ESOPs

Built to Share

The show about ownership, how the best companies use equity and ESOPs to build wealth for the people who build them.

Hosted by Satish Mugulavalli
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What we talk about

The conversation this show owns

Equity is the most powerful, and most misunderstood, tool in company building. Built to Share owns that conversation: founders, operators, and the people who’ve turned ESOPs from a slide in the offer letter into life-changing outcomes.

01

ESOP design, done right

Pool sizing, vesting, refreshers, the mechanics most companies get wrong.

02

Ownership culture

What changes when a team actually thinks like owners.

03

Liquidity events

Buybacks, secondaries, and the moments paper wealth becomes real.

04

The equity math

Dilution, exercise windows, and tax, explained like a human.

05

Retention that compounds

Why ownership beats counter-offers, season after season.

06

Where ownership is heading

How employee ownership is spreading, and where it goes next.

Satish Mugulavalli

Meet the host

Satish Mugulavalli

Host, Built to Share

Satish Mugulavalli spent two decades in networking and communications, co-founding companies through the years when startups were still a fringe bet, then moved to the other side of the table as a Venture Partner at YourNest Venture Capital. He started Built to Share because the conversations he kept having privately with founders, about the hire that almost didn’t happen and the ownership calls that followed, almost never showed up in public founder interviews.

He is now Founder and Managing Partner of Hissa Fund by Rulezero, India’s first SEBI-registered ESOP liquidity fund. He asks founders about compensation, equity and culture from inside the problem, having made those calls in his own companies and watched them play out across the startups he backed.

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Guests who’ve taken the seat

A sample of the rooms this show opens. Full guest list lives on the channel.

Ankit Mehta
Ankit MehtaCo-founder & CEO, ideaForge
Ravi Saxena
Ravi SaxenaCo-founder & MD, Wonderchef
Vishal Bali
Vishal BaliExecutive Chairman, Asia Healthcare Holdings
Ashok Hariharan
Ashok HariharanCo-founder & CEO, IDfy
Nakul Kumar
Nakul KumarCo-founder & COO, Cashify
Anurag Jain
Anurag JainCo-founder, CarDekho

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