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It wouldn't be very hard to collect existing data points and come up with a rough approximation, would it? I would think enough data now exists to allow such a
by cubano 10y ago
It wouldn't be very hard to collect existing data points and come up with a rough approximation, would it?
I would think enough data now exists to allow such an analysis to have some idea of those numbers.
- wtvanhest 10y agoI doubt it. The past 5 years have been somewhat unique in that companies were given lots of cash with liquidation preferences and 'fake' valuations. A good example are T Rowe Price's 'unicorns': http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-airbnb-and-other-unicorns-have-valuations-cut-at-t-rowe-price-2016-04-15 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-airbnb-and-other-unico... If UBER IPOs for any less than $12.5Bn, what will the early employees get? Probably not much compared with the value they helped create. Right now, that looks impossible, but who knows what will happen? My point is that there is not a historic president for what has happened in the private markets and I would do anything I could to cash out of equity if I held it in a unicorn and I was liquid. I would love to see YC step up and encourage founders to issue employee friendly stock options.
- wtvanhest 10y ago*precedent not president