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Time to Sell Your Business? An ESOP May Be the Answer

Strategy Driven

These companies are often founded to capitalize on a perceived market opportunity and grow over time until eventually the owner has a healthy, and profitable company. Let’s assume you started a digital marketing agency, a realistic example, given this industry is hot. How does an ESOP work? 1.6M, and enable it to sell for $3.5-4M+.

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Huawei: A Case Study of When Profit Sharing Works

Harvard Business Review

It is the only Chinese company that receives more sales revenue from markets outside China (67%) than from inside it. isn’t one of those markets. At Huawei’s inception, Zhengfei designed the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The structure of the ESOP is based on two important premises.