Delaware, every mention
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every year anyone Garry Tan 8Carolynn Levy 8Jason Kwon 4Eric Ries 3Tikhon Bernstam 2Kirsty Nathoo 2Mark Zuckerberg 1Geoff Ralston 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Delaware comes up
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:13 Garry Tan Basically there's, um, Delaware bylaws. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Garry Tan I guess the Delaware C Corp thing is actually a pretty big thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:15 Eric Ries The problem is directors, especially under Delaware law, have extremely wide latitude to basically do whatever they want, as long as they can justify it as being, you know, in line with what it says in the charter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:49 Eric Ries All you can do is a Delaware C Corp, everything standard, best practice, best practice.
Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:25 Geoff Ralston So it's certainly, we require that everyone become a Delaware corporation at YC.
Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:41 Carolynn Levy Now, we, um, strongly recommend choosing Delaware. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:40 Carolynn Levy If your startup is a Delaware corporation, there is an annual tax you have to pay to that state, but if you calculate it correctly, the tax owed is really minor for startups.
- ▶ 16:11 Carolynn Levy Into a corporation later, and for those of you who watched the 2014 startup school lecture, um, Kirstie and I told an anecdote about a company that was an LLC, and they had to convert into a Delaware Corp, and it was a 400,000 dollar legal…
- ▶ 29:41 Jason Kwon So, uh, if you just file in Delaware, you're kind of C Corp by default.
- ▶ 46:41 Jason Kwon Um, so the, uh, the technical answer is, yeah, there, there are ways, there are methods you could use to actually, um, conceal some of the information that the charters, the charters, the publicly filed document, people can pay, you know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:39 Jason Kwon The Delaware parent and one percent, you know, or some other small percentage by two or one or two local, um, Indian sort of representatives, and then that subsidiary is the one that then hires employees in India.
Carolynn Levy and Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:57 Kirsty Nathoo Uh, so, for YC, we invest in mainly Delaware C Corps. 2 times in the scene
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:18 Tikhon Bernstam Um, but also investors are largely averse to, like, non-Delaware C-Corps, which a lot of these companies outside of the U.S. are. 2 times in the scene
Mark Zuckerberg : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:14 Mark Zuckerberg I think probably, I think it became a, a, a formal Delaware company when Peter Thiel invested about six months in.