Last week Global Shares, the Clonakilty-based fintech, was sold for $730 million (€644 million) to the bank JP Morgan. Given that Global Shares is in the business of helping companies pay their employees in the form of equity ownership, I was keen to see how Global Shares’ own cap table was organised. Last week we published a database of the owners of Global Shares, who they are, where they’re from and how much they made. Reproduced below, it runs to 27 pages. A common reason why employees are paid in stock options is that it’s a way of tempting them…

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