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Slack S-1: Will ARPU Drive Long Term Value?

View from Seed

But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders. Public equity investors will measure it in the short term by the same metrics they judge other SaaS companies… multiples of revenue / EBITDA / bookings, growth rates, churn, sales efficiency, etc.

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Slack S-1: Will APRU Drive Long Term Value?

Agile VC

But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders. Public equity investors will measure it in the short term by the same metrics they judge other SaaS companies… multiples of revenue / EBITDA / bookings, growth rates, churn, sales efficiency, etc.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

Both employees and investors typically have a 6 month lock up period (exceptions apply of course) so this can have devastating effects on liquidity and retruns. Given that some of these new stocks have low trading volume, in practice the lock up period can be longer.