rio: extract from 2024-10-22-futardio-proposal-hire-advaith-sekharan-as-founding-engineer.md

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- Domain: internet-finance
- Extracted by: headless extraction cron (worker 3)

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entities/internet-finance/advaith-sekharan.md

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+---
+type: entity
+entity_type: person
+name: "Advaith Sekharan"
+domain: internet-finance
+status: active
+role: "Founding Engineer at MetaDAO"
+tracked_by: rio
+created: 2026-03-11
+---
+
+# Advaith Sekharan
+
+## Overview
+Advaith Sekharan is a founding engineer at MetaDAO, hired in October 2024 with $180,000 annual salary and 237 META tokens (1% of supply). His compensation includes performance-based token unlocks tied to market cap milestones, with full unlock at $5B market cap and a 4-year vesting period starting November 2024.
+
+## Timeline
+- **2024-10-22** — [[metadao-hire-advaith-sekharan]] proposed: $180K salary + 237 META tokens with performance vesting
+- **2024-10-26** — Hiring proposal passed; joined as founding engineer with retroactive salary from October 16
+
+## Relationship to KB
+- [[metadao]] — founding engineer
+- Part of MetaDAO's San Francisco core team buildout per Fundraise #2 strategy
+
+## Links
+- [GitHub](https://github.com/advaith101)
+- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/advaith-sekharan-78b52b277/)

entities/internet-finance/metadao-hire-advaith-sekharan.md

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+---
+type: entity
+entity_type: decision_market
+name: "MetaDAO: Hire Advaith Sekharan as Founding Engineer?"
+domain: internet-finance
+status: passed
+parent_entity: "[[metadao]]"
+platform: "futardio"
+proposer: "Nallok, Proph3t"
+proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/B82Dw1W6cfngH7BRukAyKXvXzP4T2cDsxwKYfxCftoC2"
+proposal_date: 2024-10-22
+resolution_date: 2024-10-26
+category: "hiring"
+summary: "Proposal to hire Advaith Sekharan as founding engineer with $180K salary and 237 META tokens with performance-based vesting"
+tracked_by: rio
+created: 2026-03-11
+---
+
+# MetaDAO: Hire Advaith Sekharan as Founding Engineer?
+
+## Summary
+Proposal to hire Advaith Sekharan as MetaDAO's founding engineer with $180,000 annual salary and 237 META tokens (1% of supply excluding DAO holdings). Compensation structure mirrors co-founder terms with performance-based unlocks tied to market cap milestones and 4-year vesting starting November 2024.
+
+## Market Data
+- **Outcome:** Passed
+- **Proposer:** Nallok, Proph3t
+- **Proposal Account:** B82Dw1W6cfngH7BRukAyKXvXzP4T2cDsxwKYfxCftoC2
+- **Proposal Number:** 7
+- **Completed:** 2024-10-26
+
+## Compensation Structure
+- **Cash:** $180,000/year (retroactive to October 16, 2024)
+- **Tokens:** 237 META (1% of 23,705.7 supply including founder allocations)
+- **Vesting:** 4-year cliff starting November 2024 (no tokens unlock before November 2028)
+- **Performance Unlocks:** Linear based on market cap ($5B = 100% unlock, $500M = 10% unlock)
+- **Clawback:** DAO can reclaim all tokens until July 2025 (8-month illiquid vest)
+- **Market Cap Definition:** $1B = $42,198 per META
+
+## Significance
+This hiring decision demonstrates MetaDAO's execution on its Fundraise #2 strategy to build a core San Francisco team. The compensation structure uses the same performance-based token vesting as co-founders, treating founding engineers as equity-equivalent stakeholders rather than employees. The 4-year cliff and 8-month clawback period signal long-term commitment requirements while the market-cap-based unlocks align incentives with protocol success rather than time served.
+
+## Relationship to KB
+- [[metadao]] — hiring decision for core team
+- [[metadao-fundraise-2]] — execution of team-building strategy from this proposal
+- [[metadao-compensation-proph3t-nallok]] — parallel compensation structure for co-founders
+- [[advaith-sekharan]] — hired individual

entities/internet-finance/metadao.md

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 - **2026-03** — Pine Analytics Q4 2025 quarterly report published
 
 - **2024-02-18** — [[metadao-otc-trade-pantera-capital]] failed: Pantera Capital's $50,000 OTC purchase proposal rejected by futarchy markets
+- **2024-10-22** — [[metadao-hire-advaith-sekharan]] proposed: hire Advaith Sekharan as founding engineer with $180K + 237 META tokens
+- **2024-10-26** — Advaith Sekharan hiring proposal passed; first founding engineer hired under Fundraise #2 team-building strategy
 ## Key Decisions
 | Date | Proposal | Proposer | Category | Outcome |
 |------|----------|----------|----------|---------|

inbox/archive/2024-10-22-futardio-proposal-hire-advaith-sekharan-as-founding-engineer.md

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 date: 2024-10-22
 domain: internet-finance
 format: data
-status: unprocessed
+status: processed
 tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana, governance]
 event_type: proposal
+processed_by: rio
+processed_date: 2026-03-11
+extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
+extraction_notes: "Hiring proposal for MetaDAO's first founding engineer. Created entity pages for Advaith Sekharan and the decision market. No novel claims about futarchy mechanisms or governance — this is a straightforward hiring decision following established compensation patterns from co-founder allocations. The performance-based vesting structure is already documented in the co-founder compensation claim. Entity data only."
 ---
 
 ## Proposal Details
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 - Autocrat version: 0.3
 - Completed: 2024-10-26
 - Ended: 2024-10-26
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- MetaDAO META supply excluding DAO holdings: 19,755.7 tokens (2024-10-22)
+- MetaDAO META supply including founder allocations: 23,705.7 tokens (2024-10-22)
+- MetaDAO market cap definition: $1B = $42,198 per META
+- Advaith Sekharan compensation: $180K salary + 237 META (1% of supply)
+- Founding engineer vesting: 4-year cliff starting November 2024, 8-month clawback period
+- Performance unlock structure: 100% at $5B market cap, linear scaling (e.g., 10% at $500M)