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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago. So far in 2017, GE is the worst performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial average. billion of GE stock – about 1.5% In fact, what happened is activist investors. of the company.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. Not everyone got the same amount of stock.
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Steve Blank
JULY 11, 2017
It was so compelling, everyone worked extremely long hours, for little pay and some stock. And those early employees got rewarded as their stock turned into cash. The problem was that at some point past employee 1000, the big payoffs ended from pre-public stock and the stock’s subsequent run-up from their IPO.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Advisory Board members are often paid in a balance of equity (stock options) and cash (“cash” is the industry term for money wired to your bank account). If you join a big company, assuming it’s public, you’ll get stock which immediately can translate into financial gains assuming the company performs well.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
At one of our initial board meetings we had agreed on the general principle of an advisory board and put together an overall stock budget to compensate advisors. Over the next week we exchanged emails over advisory board stock. I could get him the stock he asked for approved at my board meeting and then reply.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
At the time he was not only running GM but was a major Wall Street speculator (even on GM stock) and was big in the New York social scene. Meanwhile, inventory was piling up, the stock was cratering, and the company was running out of cash. Durant had another great four years at the helm of GM. But trouble was on the horizon.
Steve Blank
APRIL 26, 2022
They offered desperate founders more cash but insisted on new terms, rewriting all the old stock agreements that previous investors and employees had. Some even insisted that all prior preferred stock had to be converted to common stock. Other times it was simply a take-it-or-leave-it, here are the new terms.
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