The Ledger
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Hawk: Dot-com founders went bankrupt paying taxes on phantom stock gains
“I had good friends that had you know, gone public, actually exercise their options to pay the tax on the lower tax basis saw their value go all the way up and then down to zero. And they'd already paid tax on a phantom gain and, you know, were bankrupt, lost t…”
Hawk: iGo raised less than $10 million before its 1999 IPO
“We raised less than ten million before we went public.”
Hawk: iGo reached a peak market cap of nearly $1 billion
“The peak of market cap was just under a billion.”
Hawk: iGo's valuation crashed below $100 million before its acquisition
“We were below a hundred million by the time we got acquired.”
Hawk: iGo achieved profitability during its first three years in business
“We were profitable our first three years in business.”