"At the same time that it was restricting the aforementioned employee from selling, Uber also was preparing to raise new outside funding that ultimately would v

"At the same time that it was restricting the aforementioned employee from selling, Uber also was preparing to raise new outside funding that ultimately would value the company at more than $18 billion." Read carefully, this was prior to that round closing. Assumably they'd offer more now. (~5x)