Stake
originally “invest in me! % salary for x years”
Picture someone you'd bet on. Sharp, hungry, ready to go heads-down on something real. The bootcamp. The move to a new city. The year spent building. What's standing in the way isn't talent. It's twelve grand they don't have. Meanwhile, you've got cash parked in an index fund you never think about. That's the gap. This is Stake. You back a person, and you get a slice of their salary for a set number of years. Not a loan with interest piling up. A real bet on a real human. They do well, you do well. They hit a rough patch, the payment shrinks with their paycheck. We handle the contract, the percentage, the payouts. Think of it as an index fund, except the asset is a person you believe in. There's a kid in Grand Rapids right now who needs exactly one person to bet on them. Stake is how you do it.
For backers who believe in someone — and strivers one loan away from a leap: invest in a person, share their upside.
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