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Most sales jobs offer some kind of revenue share. Sometimes revenue share is the only compensation.

When cosco buys apples from a farmer for $1 and resells them for $2, they are effectively taking a 50% revenue share.

A referral bonus for bringing in a new customer is also a kind of revenue share for the existing customer, and plenty of startups do those.

I think the key is to compensate based on a revenue share of what you bring in, rather than of the total revenue.



That’s true for sales jobs. I was under the impression he was asking about it for all key employees.




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