Not in this case, even the CEO would have walked away empty-handed. Too many funding rounds had transpired with ever-increasing multipliers on the liquidation

Not in this case, even the CEO would have walked away empty-handed. Too many funding rounds had transpired with ever-increasing multipliers on the liquidation preferences. Still, I think there's an argument that had he taken the buyout, he personally could have argued that he delivered for the investors and that would have gotten him to round 2.