SmartSEAT #2: How Advisors Get Paid & Structured - The Executive Lens
Every advisory relationship is a set of choices — strategic advice, discrete deliverables, or a combination — paid in cash, equity, or a mix, and flexible enough to evolve as the relationship grows.
Knowing what you're being offered — and what you actually want — is the difference between a great engagement and a resentment-building one.
Learn to read the structure, weigh the risk, and know exactly what to ask before you say yes. (Board-observer rights are advisory and non-fiduciary; the independent-director seat is a separate, fiduciary role covered later in the series.)
What you'll leave with:
the ways an advisory relationship can be structured and paid
when to say yes (and when to be cautious)
the risk and compensation difference
a lens you can apply to any opportunity.
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