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		apparent 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exi... Or they'll find a way to dilute the co-founder's shares so they don't have to buy them out.

tptacek 9 months ago [–]

If that's going to happen, it's going to happen. I've heard as many stories of it happening as I've heard stories of people unhappy with the amount of liquidity they were able to achieve early in the life of a company that later became successful.

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