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Navigating SAFEs, Pay-to-Play Rounds & Risks with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

This Week in Startups

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The Top Conflicts Between Existing Investors and New Investors

There's going to be two or three of these we might as well put them on the table here and then after we discuss what the conflicts are how the resolution gets done practically speaking. One of the the biggest ones is going to be at the board level right like any transaction any financing transaction has to get approved by the board. We're talking about significant down rounds here. Quite often they're insider led lots lots lots time they're insiderLed. The existing investors may think okay maybe we did overpay in that last round and you know the company's not where we expected to be your macroeconomics.

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