Starting salaries and offers

We are raising venture capital to hire the best people in the industry to help us build the best training platform in the world. We are building something incredibly unique and complex and I would love to share more about as we grow, but it's not easy or cheap and takes large investment with long term returns. We have several engineers with \~10 years FAANG experience. All of our recruiters are 5+ year ex-FAANG and our head of recruiting was 10 years at FB running the internship program. Our director of career services ran career services at Triplebyte and several bootcamps. We pay these people competitively and also with stock that will grow in value over time as they build and contribute value to Formation. When you start from scratch, raising VC funding is a great way to seed the funding needed to accomplish this, and if you are going to raise funding, why not aim for the best investors in the world like A16z?