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Insuring Directors And Officers Through M&A And IPO Events

YoungUpstarts

And in the last few years, these cases have prompted D&O insurers to put specific M&A retentions into their policies. Retention, or self-insured retention, refers to the amount of money an insured business is responsible for paying first in the event of a claim before the insurance kicks in.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Everybody has known that for awhile, even without perusing a prospectus. So even before you get to product development (20% of revenue) or G&A (14% in 2019), you’re already looking at a narrower potential margin than you might expect from a marketplace or transaction platform.