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The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds

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So they recapitalize the company. It usually happens in a later round, when the company is in fact worth much less than the liquidation preference overhang and insiders use a pay-to-play and a low valuation to reset the preferences and the cap table. and the investors, who put up $1m in a convertible note, get 0.1%.