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Continuing with the “No Mess” theme of commenting on things that give VCs pause, I thought it would be good to touch on liquidationpreference. Specifically, “too much” liquidationpreference (I will use “LP” for liquidationpreference). Ok, enough of the background.
between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals. Lightbox and Karma had raised money $5.7m
Tweaking convertible debt so that common stock (instead of preferred stock) is issued for the conversion discount in order to limit liquidationpreference overhang. Convertible debt with a price cap preserves the investor’s “equity&# ownership, but gives the investor extra liquidationpreference.
As the investors’ aggregateliquidationpreference (ALP) increases typically the need for a MCOP also increases. The ALP is the total amount of $ that preferred stock holders are owed on a sale of the company under their liquidationpreferences. A few key points to consider: 1.
Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. This is because these companies have raised so much capital that the early investor is no longer a substantial portion of the voting rights or the liquidationpreference stack.
That means, assuming a 1X liquidationpreference, that the common stock should be worth zero NOW simply based on the fact that the aggregateliquidationpreference exceeds the M&A revenue multiples. Furthermore, it is in an industry where M&A transactions typically happen in the 3-4X revenue range.
Due to aggregateliquidationpreferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. If you can’t figure this out yourself, you should probably build a liquidationpreference spreadsheet to model how liquidationpreferences work depending on M&A transaction value.
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