Dan Bladen
4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 15, 2026 by Dan Bladen · across every show →
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Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
New VCs urged Bladen to abandon early investors; he pitched 100 instead
“We had a lot of investors saying, hey, new, new investors, we wanna come into Cadence, just ditch them, start this afresh on the side but that didn't feel like winning the right way to me, so we, I did over a hundred investors to get the round done”
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Bladen reset the company cap table after being diluted to 15 percent
“I was down to about 15% of the business at that point, and so yeah, I went to them, proposed, hey, we're gonna have to, the way to protect everybody's ownership, keep you guys all in, is to do an options increase so that's what we did.”