Equity Dilution

“You would have lost 40%, 50%, 60% of your company raising money, losing a little bit of that money, failing a little bit on that whole thought process, and anyway be at about 25%, in my view, to get to that same place.”

“I found I've had a lot of success with dilution sensitive founders... They tend to just be a little bit more high conviction on what they're building. And they tend to believe that every percent of equity they give away is one percent of equity they'll never g…”

“I remember reading an article about a founder who had exited with this very small amount of shares at the end of a major exit, and I remember reading the comments and people being very critical about how they gave so much of their equity away as they raised mo…”

“Had we raised equity in the same dollars at the same time that we took out debt we would have taken a lot more dilution than let's say that we just like raised equity today and paid it off just to like, you know, allow you to do that math. We would have taken …”

“I think most companies that are going to make it to a unicorn status or scale to in excess of a billion dollar enterprise valuation or a billion in sales, pick the metric. More often than not, you're going to want to have the ability to digest these strategic …”

“A lot less equity will be spent on, on, on the team, right? Because you're not gonna need rounds and rounds and Distributing equity after every round to hundreds and hundreds of people.”

“Dilution does not mean you're having to give back your shares. You know, it's not like you're getting less shares over time. And so as long as the per, yeah, as long as the per share price is going up, like you need to be less fixated on how much of the pie yo…”

“They are in the single digit range or less.”

“The way we think about dilution is if you're going to create more value than the dilution that you're incurring by raising money, you should do the deal.”