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In my experience, the alternative to a pay to play or similar situation in which the old investors get hosed is the company dying, so they get hosed anyway. The
by orionsbelt 1y ago
In my experience, the alternative to a pay to play or similar situation in which the old investors get hosed is the company dying, so they get hosed anyway. The fact is, a messed up cap table or zombie company is not attractive to new investors, so cleaning it up is an unfortunate necessity.
- sleepybrett 1y agoIMO the investors deserve a fair price for her 'buying' her old trash. I assume they won't get it and she'll be able to buy her old trash for pennies, probably 100 of them.
- orionsbelt 1y agoA typical startup would require the consent of a majority of the investor shares for a sale of all the assets, so there would be investor protection and consent to this type of a transaction. And indeed this article says “Almost all of Sunshine’s investors, who include Norwest Venture Partners, Felicis Partners, and SV Angel, have signed off on the deal, Wired cited the sources as saying.” So the investors think whatever is happening is a fair deal.
- bix6 1y ago51% of investors agreeing isn’t necessarily fair. That could be 1 or 2 large investors hosing everyone else. Do you know which investor isn’t cruising over?
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- bix6 1y agoMaybe the company should just die? It failed and now they’re spinning out… why?
- collingreen 1y agoIt did die. One way to look at it is do you want zero or do you want pennies on the dollar for it? Is it crappy? Yeah. Doubly so if being abused by the founder. There is a version of this that is just the best of two bad options though. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth when the founder doesn't share the same pain as the investors and the employees but such is life and it's hard to draw a line anyway, especially for someone super rich and with star power like her.
- bix6 1y agoI want zero. Give the LPs a loss and move on.