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Re:YC wants to let people invest in its startups through the... by jacquesm on Thursday September 21, 2017 @03:46AM (#15301299)
You can invest after YC has invested at a substantially higher rate. The YC investment has the effect of a stamp of approval by the picker of winners and as a result the value of the stock of the companies they invest in jumps up immediately.
Re:YC wants to let people invest in its startups through the... by subroutine on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:01AM (#15301685)
Right but this is still referring to the individual companies, no? My question is what does a yc 'token' get you? Does yc turn around and give you X amount of equity of each company in the current class, do you get to hand pick, or something else?