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bootstrapper
19y ago
Trading equity only makes sense in terms of my goals. The founders own 90% of this company. We're not trading equity unless the math makes sense. If your math says it makes sense when it doesn't, your math is wrong (specifically, money has
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bootstrapper
19y ago
I don't see how I have misunderstood you, eg: "The reason Sequoia is such a good deal is that the percentage of the company they take is artificially low. They don't even try to get market price for their investment; they limit their holdi
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bootstrapper
19y ago
I am thoroughly fed-up hearing this self-serving tripe from investors. If all I am looking for is financial independence (say $3M), why would I trade an 80% probability of success for a 5% probability of achieving 100 times that by selling