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Re:Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. by roymurdock on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:57AM (#14603308)
Responding to Bogomipz:

> Can you walk me through the math. How does one arrive at 1K of Series A preferred from 9K of common stock? How is that being derived? I'm not following.

At time t=0 (probably at founding and when hiring its first few employees) Company X issued 9,000 shares of common stock. At time t=1 it decides to issue 1,000 shares in a series A offering (most likely to VCs and outside investors). They are separate events.

1000 shares x $1000/share = $1m raised for the company in the series A.

> Also what is meant by "post-money" valuation? I'm assuming there is a corresponding "pre-money"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-money_valuation

In this case, pre-money valuation of Company X = $10m - $1m = $9m

> Lastly by "coming out flat" you mean made whole again i.e recouped their initial investment? Thanks.

Yes.

Re:Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. by bogomipz on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:19AM (#14603991)
Thanks, the t=0 and t=1 and these being discrete events cleared this up for me. Cheers.