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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

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It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table). So 30%-40% is the range.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

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As expected, that deal took a bit longer than it would have had the Company raised a vanilla Series A to begin with (and subsequently raised a Series B) but the aggregate fees for the two transactions were still less than the standard Series A followed by a Series B. Today that amount is dramatically smaller.

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