Dual Class Shares
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes
Founder's Journal 
the a16z Podcast
3 statements about Dual Class Shares, every show
Adcock: Roughly 50 Dual-Class Companies Went Public in Two Decades
“Roughly 50 companies went public last like two decades that had this.”
Dual-class shares are unnecessary in private markets due to illiquidity
“The reason why those tend not to exist in the private markets is we're all completely aligned, which is none of us have liquidity, right? So we can't, you know, in general, and many times we are prevented from selling our shares legally, so there's no liquid m…”
Andreessen Horowitz approves dual-class shares only as companies approach IPO
“What we've done with many of our companies is as they get closer to going public, we have agreed with them that, okay, having these dual class shares when and if you go public is a good thing to do. But we haven't done that obviously in the private markets.”