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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In Silicon Valley, the promise of a massive payday for a start-up’s early employees and investors has hinged on those companies eventually going public or being sold off. But with the slowdown in initial public offerings and acquisitions, a different marketplace is set to heat up this year. It is called the venture secondary market, and it’s where both investors and early employees can trade their stakes in privately-held companies. The FT’s venture capital correspondent George Hammond explains the potential pitfalls of this opaque marketplace and why investors will be rushing to it in 2024.
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0:29.8 | Over the last couple of decades, Silicon Valley startups have used one particular offer to attract new employees. |
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0:45.0 | employee, Silicon Valley tech companies don't have tons of cash, but they do have stock. |
0:47.0 | And if you're an early employee, |
0:49.0 | you're going to get some of that stock, |
0:50.0 | and that is often the golden ticket, much more so than what you're earning each year. |
0:55.8 | That's George Hammond. He's the FT's venture capital correspondent and he says this equity |
1:01.5 | can turn into a lot of cash if the business takes off. |
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