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beambot on Sept 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Risk of a Billion-Dollar Valuation in Silicon ...

Plus: Anyone who is "top talent" is probably well aware of the negative effect of liquidation preferences on employee common stock value in an acquisition (the topic of the article). So $1B valuations with heavy liquidation preferences are not a good thing to these folks.

aqme28 on Sept 23, 2015 [–]

However liquidation preferences are opaque to candidates, so "top talent" just has to assume there are liquidation preferences on all companies.

beambot on Sept 23, 2015 | [–]

Those terms are very material to a candidate's compensation package; maybe they should be made known. (Honesty and transparency?!)

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