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Re:When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt by jameshart on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @01:22PM (#10784723)
But the people negotiating the deal with Blackberry knew how the waterfall would shake out. They elected to agree to a price where the share of the purchase price distributed across common stockholders left many employees in a bad place. That was a choice. As was structuring the ownership of the company, and the compensation offers to their employees, in that way in the first place.
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Re:When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt by tvladeck on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:17PM (#10785046)
Right, but we have to assume that Good could not have gotten a better price from Blackberry. The alternative was even worse from the common shareholders - a price of $0 for their shares.

They also could not have changed the waterfall. So I'm not sure what your point is, really

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