VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Both employees and investors typically have a 6 month lock up period (exceptions apply of course) so this can have devastating effects on liquidity and retruns. Given that some of these new stocks have low trading volume, in practice the lock up period can be longer.

Israel 158

Israel Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 158

View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders. Public equity investors will measure it in the short term by the same metrics they judge other SaaS companies… multiples of revenue / EBITDA / bookings, growth rates, churn, sales efficiency, etc.

Lock-up Period 168

Lock-up Period Retention .Net Azure 168

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders. Public equity investors will measure it in the short term by the same metrics they judge other SaaS companies… multiples of revenue / EBITDA / bookings, growth rates, churn, sales efficiency, etc.

Lock-up Period 100

Lock-up Period Retention .Net Azure 100