Founder Friday: Alessandro Chesser, Edison Salman & Kyle Hanson, Co-Founders of Dynasty 🏦
Issue #60
Founder Friday is a content series from SuperAngel.Fund that highlights companies across our portfolio and the inspiring founders behind them.
Most founders spend years building valuable companies.
But very few spend enough time thinking about how they own them.
And that can quietly become a multi-million dollar mistake.
In our 60th edition, meet Alessandro Chesser, Edison Salman & Kyle Hanson, co-founders of Dynasty, a modern trust company helping founders maximize Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) tax benefits.
Before starting Dynasty, the founding team spent years at Carta, where they saw firsthand how equity gets created, managed, and ultimately monetized.
After helping scale Carta from $0 to $300M+ ARR, the team had a meaningful outcome.
But when they sold shares, they paid the maximum capital gains tax.
Then they learned something that completely changed their perspective.
An angel investor had exited $40M and paid $0 in taxes, perfectly legally, by using QSBS trust stacking.
That moment sparked a question:
Why were sophisticated investors legally paying far less in taxes than the founders and employees who actually helped build these companies?
The insight was simple:
Many wealthy founders and family offices have long used trust structures to multiply their QSBS exemption and dramatically reduce taxes at exit.
But the strategy was historically locked behind private-client law firms, opaque processes, and expensive engagements.
So they built Dynasty.
Dynasty helps founders, GPs and early employees plan, create, and administer trusts to stack their QSBS exemption, potentially shielding $15M+ in gains, at a fraction of the traditional cost.
The platform productizes the full process:
• Planning
• Legal structuring
• Trust creation
• Compliance
• Administration
• Ongoing support
All designed to make one of the most powerful tax strategies in startup history accessible to founders, employees, and investors.
Dynasty is also the only venture-backed company that operates a professionally licensed trust company, making trust administration significantly simpler and less expensive than the traditional route.
Since launching in July 2025, Dynasty has already served 400+ founders, angel investors, and early employees and created 1,000+ trusts for QSBS stacking.
Revenue has increased rapidly month by month, reflecting strong demand for the product.
This is one of the few decisions that can materially change your outcome…without changing anything about your company.
Learn more or book a call with the team here: getdynasty.com
And see what Alessandro, Edison, and Kyle have to say in this week’s Q&A 👇
*Dynasty is a SuperAngel.Fund II portfolio company
Describe your company in 5 words or less.
Alessandro: QSBS stacking for founders/investors.
Edison: QSBS Trust Stacking for Founders.
Kyle: We help founders save taxes.
What was your primary motivation for starting your business?
Alessandro: I was employee #13 at Carta. I didn’t know about QSBS, didn’t exercise in time, and paid maximum taxes when I sold my shares. Meanwhile, a friend of mine (an early investor in Carta) told me he’d set up trusts and paid zero taxes on $30M+ in capital gains. So I, a middle-class employee, paid maximum taxes on a couple million. My wealthy investor friend paid zero on $30M+. That’s when I knew I wanted to fix it. For the founders and investors who can’t afford the traditional way of setting up these trusts, which can run $100K+ in the first year alone.
Edison: I wanted to build simple and modern infrastructure for estate and tax planning.
Kyle: Working at Carta I got to see an antiquated process (paper stock certificates) sucked into a software world. Creating those efficiencies was really exciting and I wanted to find other similar processes that we could convert to software.
What new product/feature are you most excited about and why?
Alessandro: Dynasty for GPs. We launched it last week and already have customers plus a strong pipeline. What’s interesting is it’s not just attracting early-career GPs with new funds. It’s also attracting some of the richest, most well-known investors in startups. We didn’t expect that. You’d assume they’d want to work with traditional lawyers, but it turns out they want a tech solution (even from an early-stage startup) far more than a traditional one.
Edison: Automating simple stock transfers through a 5 step workflow so founders don’t need to involve expensive corporate lawyers.
Kyle: Not necessarily a specific feature, but I am really excited to keep driving down the time to trust creation and funding. Reducing onboarding time trust creation is a company wide effort that includes crafting the document template, onboarding and funding. We have taken a process that took months before and condensed it down to as little as a day and I am excited to push the boundaries further.
What piece of advice would you give an entrepreneur starting a business today?
Alessandro: Plan for your exit as early as possible. Even day one when starting your company. It can save you millions of dollars later.
Edison: Find the fastest way to test your assumptions so you can iterate toward the right answer. Building in the wrong direction is the biggest drain on both time and morale.
Kyle: It’s really hard to manufacture demand and it is much lower friction to go where demand already exists. Having a product that solves a range of problems and then zeroing in on exact use cases within that range can allow you to pivot faster.
What do you love to do in your free time?
Alessandro: Play with my kids, go hiking in the woods, and play basketball!
Edison: Spend time with my family.
Kyle: Right now I am really into 3D printing and have been printing variations of an open-source violin.
What is the most interesting place you’ve visited recently and why?
Alessandro: Sumba island off the coast of Bali. There were literally wild horses swimming in the ocean next to us. Most beautiful place I’ve ever been to by far.
Edison: I was at the underground parking of our new office building. It’s a smaller building in San Francisco and the parking entry is incredibly tight. I can barely fit my midsize truck through. It reminded me that we can do a lot with very little if we focus on a problem.
Kyle: With twin infants, the grocery store is about the most interesting place I’ve been able to get to recently.
What is your favorite app or tool in your work life and in your personal life?
Alessandro: Claude! It makes me significantly more productive. Automating manual tasks, helping me get through my inbox faster, and helps me create decks in a quarter of the time (or less).
Edison: I’m someone who likes to deeply understand problems before attacking them, which means I naturally fall into research rabbit holes. ChatGPT has been one of the biggest unlocks for helping me cut through the noise and get to clarity faster.
Kyle: Right now probably would have to say Codex. At work for obvious reasons and in my personal life I am using it to tinker with CAD and 3D modeling.
What do you want to be when you grow up (besides a successful founder)? 😊
Alessandro: A grandfather! Maybe even a great grandfather if I’m lucky.
Edison: I want to grow my own food.
Kyle: I always thought it would be cool to open an American breakfast restaurant in Rio de Janeiro (where my wife is from) and sell French toast, bacon and eggs, etc.
What do you believe is the most important skill or attribute of a successful founder?
Alessandro: Resiliency. We take a lot of punches so it’s important to keep getting back up no matter what.
Edison: Protect your time and delegate when you can.
Kyle: An ability to take 1000 no’s and stick to your convictions.
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