What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn

Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by finnh on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @02:00PM (#13429208)

Yes, but ROFR doesn't necessarily hurt you - it just slows down the deal. Also, the VCs who do this also structure the deal in certain ways to make the ROFR price unclear and therefore negotiable.

But, you're right, some start-ups are explicitly putting in an explicit "consent" clause into the ISO. Which I think is unfair, and kind of BS - certainly if such a clause were valid, that would drastically reduce the value of non-publicly-tradeable shares, and it would be nice if the IRS agreed =)

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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by danielweber on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:55PM (#13430667)

I was at a start-up -- that I co-founded, so I take some of the blame here in not realizing what another co-founder was baking into the cake, but at least I can warn others now -- where the company interpreted "right of first refusal" as "the person trying to sell shares must hire an outside auditor to determine FMV," and refusing to answer any further questions about whether the auditor would actually be given access to the company's books.

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