LEADERSHIP

Meet Henry Ward

The best advice comes from experience—Carta’s Founder and CEO, Henry Ward, shares what he's learned on his journey to inspire the next generation of founders.

Getting to Product-Market Fit

The path to product-market fit is treacherous yet crucial for any early-stage startup to survive, just like…baby turtles?

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What Type of Salesperson to Hire

Henry introduces the two types of salespeople to consider when building your sales organization—evangelical and functional.

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When to Expand Your Product Offering

How do you know if you should focus on one product or start diversifying and building a product set?

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Advocating for Private Markets at the U.S. House Financial Services Committee

Henry addressed the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services to advocate for private markets and increased access to ownership.

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The Future of Venture Fund Administration

When we entered the Venture Fund Administration business in late 2018, we saw a similar problem to the problem we saw in the Captable and 409A Valuations industries.

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The Next Evolution of Carta

The most beautiful thing about building Carta is that the more problems we solve, the more problems we get to solve.

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First and Best

Read an internal memo Henry shared with the company about an update to how Carta gives offers.

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A Bias to Action

Read an internal memo from Henry regarding the challenges of keeping a growing organization executing with the same relentless and risk-taking spirit of the early days.

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Carta - Creating More Owners

What if issuing equity were as easy and cheap as paying payroll? Could we make ownership as ubiquitous as salaries?

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