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Investors are happy with a 10% discount from preferred when buying common shares with no liquidation preferences?



Not every company has onerous terms.

But you could still factor that in to whatever the fair market value is.

Call it a 50% discount if you like, to get to the "market value". But that still sounds like a much much better deal than what the CEO is offering


Even a 1X liquidation preference knocks a lot off, and that's hardly onerous.

There's a reason why the 409a value is often only 10%.




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