Typeform allowed employees to sell half their vested shares in Series B
David Okunyev · Typeform Breaks $75m Revenue, How the Founder Structures R&D Team of 2 To Build Fast, Launch new Products · May 18, 2022 · at 13:42
Typeform co-founder David Okunyev details employee liquidity terms offered during the company's 2017 Series B financing round.
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“We did allow employees to sell, if I remember up to 50% of what they actually had. So there was quite, quite a bit to take off the table, but it was much earlier.”
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