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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1356 Early Employee Who Wants to Sell A Few Shares? Plaza Ventures New Model Is What You Need.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Matthew is a seasoned growth-stage technology investor and career VC, having originated, managed and completed dozens of transactions. As General Partner at Plaza Ventures, Matt specializes in deal flow, investment transaction processing, ecosystem development and investor relations. He sits on the board of numerous companies, as well as various accelerators and charities.

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0:00.0

My new book is out How to Be a Capitalist without any capital. It hit the Wall Street Journal

0:05.2

bestsellers list and I just wanted to say thank you. I hope you get it at capitalistbook.com.

0:12.0

Here's what user Jay Eggleston said in an Amazon review. Warning, this book is addicting.

0:17.0

Is Nathan the new Tim Ferriss? He said, I met Nathan during my college days when he was still CEO of Hale.

0:22.3

I knew he was inspiration since the day I met him.

0:24.9

The book is totally a Nathan Ladka original and this is the new four-hour work week.

0:29.1

Warning, though, it is addicting.

0:30.6

I'm not sure how long I've been reading it now and the only thing that is making me from put it down is the dreaded workday tomorrow.

0:35.8

Six people found that helpful. Get the book today at Capitalistbook.com.

0:40.1

Raising call it 50 million bucks every, you know, six, 12, 18 months, something like that,

0:44.3

doing five to seven deals.

0:45.8

Really, and also then recently created Canada's first secondary market fund.

0:49.8

So angel investors and employees in Canadian late stage tech companies could sell their shares and

0:54.6

earn some liquidity and then hopefully within 1836 months get some other form of liquidity,

0:59.2

whether that's an IPO or a secondary or all the other forms to get liquidity.

1:03.0

That's what they're modeling.

1:04.2

First time it's been done in Canada.

1:06.6

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn.

1:17.9

Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines.

1:27.2

We went from a couple of hundred dollars to 2.7 million.

1:30.3

I had no money when I started the company.

1:32.3

It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs.

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