Re:With $600M 'Blank Check' IPO, VCs Experiment on Startup L...
by kamakazizuru on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:47PM
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Very interesting insight!
As for the sniff test - while I agree with your assessment, I wonder if the aspect of providing employees easier liquidity will make them more attractive than traditional VC deals? Essentially by "investing" in companies with a mix of SPAC stock and capital, making the SPAC stock available to employees to sell in order to liquidate some of their options / equity. Essentially giving them better access to deals than others (a variation of test 1)
As for test 2 - I think this is true of many tech startups outside of the valley, maybe they will look outside the echo chamber.
As for the sniff test - while I agree with your assessment, I wonder if the aspect of providing employees easier liquidity will make them more attractive than traditional VC deals? Essentially by "investing" in companies with a mix of SPAC stock and capital, making the SPAC stock available to employees to sell in order to liquidate some of their options / equity. Essentially giving them better access to deals than others (a variation of test 1)
As for test 2 - I think this is true of many tech startups outside of the valley, maybe they will look outside the echo chamber.