Welcome to the Carta Engineering Blog

I first heard about Carta — called eShares at the time — on May 9, 2015. My a16z-backed startup became a customer nine days later, after I realized we’d made yet another mistake managing our cap table. Mike Wu (eShares employee #10, and now our deputy general counsel) was our onboarding manager, and the platform quickly proved to be a game-changer for me as a first-time founder and CEO.

1,218 days later, I joined Carta to change the game for other founders from the inside. At the time, we were a $400 million dollar company with about 80 engineers. Over the next two and a half years, the company grew into a rocketship: today, the engineering team is nearly 300 strong, and Carta’s enterprise value is more than $7 billion. Getting here has been hard, and there’s a long way yet to go. But it has also been a lot of fun.

I’m tremendously proud of the team that’s made it all possible. The company is filled with scrappy, creative, resourceful, kind people, solving unique challenges every day. I believe the world should know more about how we’re solving those problems, which is why we’ve created this blog: Building Carta.

In this space, you’ll hear directly from Carta engineers. We’ll be writing about the technical problems we’re tackling, why we find it so meaningful to work at a business predicated on employee ownership, and what it takes to continuously improve the engine of a rocket ship while it’s in flight.

From the beginning, Carta has been a startup solving problems for startups. A company of founders building solutions for founders. Employees creating products for employees. This blog is the next chapter of that story: engineers sharing knowledge with engineers.

Follow Building Carta for more. And if all this sounds interesting to you, take a look at our open jobs.

Jerry Talton
Chief Technology Officer