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Brutal result after years of work - "a less than $500,000 cash consideration from FullContact, which will be used to facilitate shutdown."

It wasn’t an all-cash deal:

> The deal additionally included a stock transaction

Yes, 500k of stock (at present value). So $1M.

Tough outcome.

Sounds like you've got inside info. In situations like these does that go 100% to investors, or do founders/early employees take even a small piece?

The article said that "common" shareholders walk out with nothing.

Typically, founders and early employees are issued only common stock, while investors are issued "preferred" shares. Unless the founding team invested their own capital alongside the angels and professional VCs involved in their rounds, it's not likely that they were preferred shareholders.

Preferred shareholders are first in line to get cash payouts after liquidation. Common shareholders are able to access cash only after all of the preferred shareholders have been paid.

I wrote a series on the subject I could share if you're interested.

The “inside info” of actually reading the article. Hahah.

Ah, I see the article has been updated. The details on the stock side of the transaction were not in there when I read the article yesterday.

Love this visualization!

This feels like a cold email to the HN community vs. a case study or even outline of what you did to A/B test.

This post is hilarious. Here's the original HN post with 258 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6108092

Sounds interesting to me! I write newsletters, blog posts, social media content, and more. Starting from a foundation/ frameworks would help save tons of time. Do you have any kind of prototype yet?

Thanks Nick. Love the curated emails from Mattermark (I knew the name sounded familiar :) ).

Do you mind if I reach out to you for the core use cases we want to solve for? Should be a quick conversation on your startupli.st email

I recommend reading chatbotsmagazine.com/ and researching chatbots on Quora.

Thanks

I understand the value of life and that it's important to make sure everyone is safe in space missions, but this is an unmanned space organization and it would be RIDICULOUS if SpaceX was grounded for any period of time. They continue to push the boundaries and should be lauded for their accomplishments and less ridiculed for their mission failures. Just my brief opinion....