How to pay your operator: a talk for business owners

​You hired someone to run your business. Now you have to decide what to pay them — and every option feels like a trap.

​Pay conservatively and you scare off the people who could actually grow the thing. Load it all into base and six months later they're comfortable, you're stuck, and the results are mediocre. Pay up and you lie awake wondering if you just wildly overpaid compared to what everyone else is doing.

​Tighe Burke places operators, GMs, and CEOs for holdcos, PE firms, and bootstrapped companies. He's seen the comp structures that work, the ones that quietly kill growth, and the specific mistake most owners make when they copy a package from a friend.

​This was one of the most popular talks at last year's Compound Conference, so we're bringing Tighe back to give it to everyone who wasn't in the room.

​Short presentation, then lots of time for Q&A.

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​By signing up, you agree to be contacted by Tighe Burke srch and Michael Girdley / Compound Conference.