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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

The net effect for [my company] for example is we are now doing reasonably well. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside.

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