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AUGUST 6, 2015

To the uninformed, 25,000 shares or 150,000 shares or even 5,000 shares can seem like a lot when your only reference is the stock market. And so, questions that employees should ask (but that employers should proactively volunteer answers to in the first place): What’s the total number of issued stock and stock options to date?

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AUGUST 6, 2015

To the uninformed, 25,000 shares or 150,000 shares or even 5,000 shares can seem like a lot when your only reference is the stock market. And so, questions that employees should ask (but that employers should proactively volunteer answers to in the first place): What’s the total number of issued stock and stock options to date?

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Equity Employee Cap Table Stock Options 120

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

US VC versus stocks. A VC fund that is at 2x after ten years doesn’t feel great if the stock market has been in a massive bull market, but it might feel great if the economy overall has stalled or suffered a significant crash. And only a couple dozen of them are “Dragons” as Dan Primack is now calling them. .

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APRIL 30, 2019

In some respects, when public market investors describe a newly public company as the next Facebook or Google or Amazon they are implicitly embedding value to in the company’s stock beyond the core business.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Elon’s original vision for X.com was to usher in an era of internet-enabled financial services (retail banking, payments, simple stock trading), thus displacing the slow moving incumbent banks that were uninterested in innovation in the late 1990s. In many ways this crusade has been taken up by the modern fintech revolution.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Examples of housekeeping include the following list, though not every item will appear every time: Finance: Cash out date, burn rate, 409A valuation, cap table, common/preferred stock dashboard. Team: Hires, fires, departures, responsibility changes, major promotions, and your org chart.

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JULY 28, 2016

In other words, ditch the standard stock photo and use something original and specific. It should include relevance, context, value, and emotion (all of which Oli defines in the episode). These images or videos should support your claims, educate your customers, and persuade them to proceed. A quickly absorbable list.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Our oceans are regularly overfished, nearly 90% of the world’s marine fish stocks are now fully exploited , overexploited or depleted. The need for an alternative to our current meat production is becoming more apparent with each passing day. Animal agriculture accounts for more greenhouse gas than the entire transportation industry.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For reference, high-flying megacap tech stocks like Apple and Google have operating income margins >20% and Facebook and Microsoft have operating income margins >30%. So the big question is of course over the long run, both post-COVID and as a more mature business, what sort of profitability profile might Airbnb have?

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

The internet has disrupted stock brokerage (E*Trade), payments (PayPal, Stripe), and lending (LendingClub, OnDeck, et al), but little innovation has happened in insurance. Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age. Insurance is the next big wave of the fintech revolution that has been going on for the last 5-10 years.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

The internet has disrupted stock brokerage (E*Trade), payments (PayPal, Stripe), and lending (LendingClub, OnDeck, et al), but little innovation has happened in insurance. Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age. Insurance is the next big wave of the fintech revolution that has been going on for the last 5-10 years.

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APRIL 20, 2022

Tighter money and higher interest rates will likely mean less asset inflation in everything from tech stocks to houses. But regardless of where economies and stock markets go in the coming months and years, the coming decades are going to be markedly different than the last 30 years. The post Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

In addition, some advisory firms are highly specialized and just manage assets to invest in VC funds, whereas others advise on a broad array of assets ranging from VC/private equity to hedge funds to public stocks/bonds and so on. Why Write About This Now? It was the confluence of three unconnected things.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Restaurants are closing, stocks are tanking, and travel has come to a halt. A week ago, I thought I’d be travelling for my first business school spring break — not cooped up in my Boston apartment. I thought I’d be heading to my sister-in-law’s wedding this weekend — now it has been postponed.

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JULY 14, 2022

Well over $10 trillion in assets are invested in index funds, enabling millions of everyday people to invest in a broad basket of stocks in a low-cost way to build wealth, save for retirement, and other goals.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Their day jobs are rarely focused on showcasing their writing and creativity, as with Jeff’s 10-year stint as a bartender or another ex-Dailybreaker’s previous role stocking shelves for a retail company.

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