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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt. of MySpace, Inc.

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Getting Founders Some Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs

Hunter Walker

When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. Did I work any less hard the next day because of my liquidity event?

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