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What Is Seniority?
If you start a company, and to send you some round numbers, a investor wants to give you ten million dollars to start the company. If you didn't have preferred shares, then the founders could basically, on the day after the money comes in, could say, hey, we want to liquidate the company. So that's why lawyers came with this idea of seniority,. so that, ok, if you disband the company with the investors money still in there, it goes back first to the people who put in the money. That was the idea and oand the second piece was, if the company gets sold for less han the cash put t it, at least the people