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Understanding Safes and Priced Equity Rounds by Kirsty Nathoo

Startup School by Y Combinator

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What's the Maximum Amount That You Should Give Up Amo in a Series A?

So the question was, what's the maximum amount that you should give up amo in a seed round or a safe round? If we just quickly go back to this. O ksir, this is actually a fairly standard cap table that we'd expect to see ar, where the founders own just over 50 %. We see that in the vast majority of cases coming out of a series a priced round. So then really all you have to play with is what the safe investors get to drive what the the founders own.

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