The Silicon Valley Podcast

145 Secondaries, Selling your Pre-IPO Shares with Bryce Emo Bryce Emo is the Founder of Sidecar Sidecar is an advisory service for shareholders in hyper-growth companies. They aid shareholders as they navigate the private liquidity markets to fund the exercise of options and/or gain liquidity. By helping shareholders understand the value of their equity, layout the various solutions (private sale, loan, structured finance, etc.) and introduce them to providers who can help them achieve their goals. Registered Representative of Emerson Equity LLC. Securities offered through Emerson Equity LLC, member FINRA and SIPC. All investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Speak to your tax and/or finance professional prior to investing. Emerson Equity LLC is not affiliated with any other entities identified herein.   We talk about What should every founder or employee know about 409A valuations? How does ROFR Right of First Refusal impact the sale of shares? How could selling shares on the secondary market impact the cap table? What is a personal liquidity model? How long on average do these processes take? And much more     Connect with Bryce Emo   https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryce-emo-b7073a12/ Bryce@SidecarFinance.com http://www.SidecarFinance.com     *Disclaimer This podcast is not an offer to buy or a solicitation to sell a security. The podcast is a discussion pertaining to one or more investment strategies and/or asset class(es), and is not a discussion of any specific offering, past or present, of securities. As a reminder, there is no guarantee that any investment or strategy will perform as targeted, past performance is no guarantee of future performance, and any investment involves risk of the loss of some or all principal invested. The podcast contains statements intended for educational and hypothetical purposes only, and is not to be construed as a promise of performance. Information presented herein reflects the opinions of the speakers and is from sources believed to be reliable, but all information is subject to change. You should always speak to your finance and/or tax professional prior to investing. Securities offered through Emerson Equity LLC Member: FINRA/SIPC. Only available in states where Emerson Equity LLC is registered. Emerson Equity LLC is not affiliated with any other entities identified in this communication

Panel 4 Capital Summit and Exit Strategy   Panel 4 Tech and the Economy...What will disrupt your business? Is your company on the verge of being disrupted and you don't even know it? What keeps you up at night? Well... we are going to unlock some information on technology that if you are not tracking today your company might fall in, with names like Blockbuster and Kodak.   Moderator Daran Herrman  CEO at Goboto | Host of Establishing your Empire with 10+ years of experience in managing online businesses, including managing strategy development, global eCommerce solutions, online marketing & multi-channel retail partnerships for business & consumer market sectors.  (2) Daran Herrman | LinkedIn   Dr Elizabeth Xu   Public Board Director; CEO; CTO; BMC; CPG; IBM; US Top 50 Diversity Leader; WIT, and the Hall of Fame. Dr. Xu is a passionate, global transformative leader, public company board member. She is a C-level executive with 20+ years of experience & a track record of technology, product and business strategy/execution & customer satisfaction success (5) Dr. Elizabeth Xu | LinkedIn Guillaume jaulerry Founder & Chief Executive Officer at O Company Proven entrepreneur focused on wearable hardware, data security, cybersecurity. Global senior technology leadership experience. Solving security, privacy, and portability of all data for both consumer and enterprise markets (6) Guillaume Jaulerry | LinkedIn Jeep Kline Venture Capital; Professional Faculty; Board of Directors. Jeep is a Founding Partner at Mr.Pink VC, a senior executive at Intel and pre-IPO tec hnology companies, and an Economist at The World Bank with 20 years expertise in driving the formation, growth, and market success of technology-based organizations in many countries. She thrives in entrepreneurial environments and is known for her strategic thinking, governance, and leadership skills (6) Jeep Kline | LinkedIn         We talk about   Where will the next big disruption happen? What are the concerns moving forward with data privacy? How is AI impacting the health care industry? What is the future of the supply chain? What are decisions companies making due to ESG concerns?

Selling Your Business from The Business Capital & Exit Strategy Summit    This is the 3rd Panel from the Half Day Summit...Enjoy   Selling your business, the secrets of the complete process What needs to be done, before, during, and after you decide to put your company up for sale? Where are the problems that could cause the deal to fail. In the event of failure, how do you walk away keeping the maximum amount from the transaction? Marcel Pfister Wealth Advisor for Startup Founders & Employees, ex-Goldman Sachs. His team advises founders and employees of high-growth startups on holistic wealth management solutions. Most of his clients have a big portion of their net worth in liquid stock options. He helps them mitigate that liquidity risk and create a plan to maximize after-tax proceeds of a potential sale or IPO. LinkedIn profile Jerome Fogel Partner, Corporate Practice Group, Chair - Sports and Entertainment Group at Fogel & Potamianos LLP. Jerome is the co-founder of Fogel & Potamianos LLP. He is known as a dealmaker and innovator in the legal community. He represents successful entrepreneurs, small and lower middle market companies, and high-profile sports and entertainment leaders. He also serves as the go-to offsite general counsel for a number of organizations.  He has participated in over 100 corporate, non-profit, and entertainment transactions including company formations, mergers & acquisitions, equity financing, high-profile partnerships, talent agreements, digital music distribution, television distribution, publishing, licensing, and commercial transactions.  LinkedIn profile   Shawn Flynn Shawn Flynn started his career by founding, scaling and successfully exiting a company in Beijing China. He then returned to the US to work with companies ranging from fast growing Silicon Valley startups to established overseas public companies. He brings his international experience working with all stages and sectors of businesses to his role as Principal at Global Capital Markets, a premier middle market investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation and is the Host of The Silicon Valley Podcast. LinkedIn profile Naveen Khugputh naveen@werqwise.com  Co-Founder and COO of Werqwise Broad expertise in Private Equity, Debt and Venture Capital. Over a decade spent with Lloyds Capital Markets in London and New York and LDC in UK & Asia. Involved in over 30 completed private equity transactions with a value of over $3bn USD. Naveen Khugputh | LinkedIn

Hongyi Li, Director of Open Government Product for Singapore, shares insights from his unique journey transitioning from Google to shaping digital solutions in the public sector. He discusses the contrasting efficiencies in government and tech, exploring how societal impact influences technology implementation. Li also highlights Singapore’s role as an entrepreneurship hub, detailing resources available for foreign startups. Furthermore, he describes innovative tech initiatives like Scam Shield and RedeemSG aimed at enhancing citizen engagement and tackling digital challenges.

Panel 2 • Post Pandemic Capital Structuring, where will the money come from? During the Pandemic did one of these happen to you:  1) You borrowed money and now must recapitalize and are wondering what your options are? 2) You struggled, barely survived, and now need capital to bring your company back to life?  3) Your company saw new highs and now you see unknown potential you want to raise capital to reach. These industry experts will share ideas and give you insights into potential solutions that can be implemented immediately to get you to where you want to be. Moderator  Shawn Flynn who is a Principal at Global Capital Markets, a premier middle market investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation and is the Host of The Silicon Valley Podcast.  LinkedIn   Panelist Armello Rodriguez Has spent 15 years in the financial services industry, with the past 10 years focused on commercial banking for small to medium sized firms in California. Prior to joining LafayetteSquare, Armello started his career at Wells Fargo and most recently worked at Bank of America as VP on the Global Commercial Banking. Armello's primary focus is to partner with firms by providing strategic capital to help them achieve their growth objectives. LinkedIn profile Conor Riley   As a Principal of Global Capital Markets is a full service investment bank focused on facilitating transactions within the Middle Market. Conor advises on a wide array of Mergers and Acquisitions across multiple industries. As well as, structuring growth capital, debt, and equity placements.LinkedIn profile   Mark DiTargiani Senior VP, Technology Banking at Pacific Western Bank where Mark leads the Venture Banking Group that takes the approach of underwriting to the quality of a startup's technology, market opportunity, management team, and investor syndicate, PacWest can provide access to capital throughout a company’s lifecycle.  LinkedIn profile  

140 Grit and your Startup with Luke Hohmann Founder and CEO of FirstRoot, Inc. Our mission is to create the next generation of impact investors. Our unique go-to-market strategy supports all stakeholders as youth use participatory budgeting to invest real money in their schools. Youth learn the 5 C's of modern education: creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and civics as they experience true agency and stewardship over their futures, learning through their own experiences how money really works. We want to get $1K into 1M schools globally and watch what happens when youth control $1B in capital. Previously a SAFe® Framework Contributor and Principal Consultant, Luke was Founder and CEO of Conteneo, Inc. (acquired by Scaled Agile, Inc.) where he worked with an extraordinary dev team to create the Weave, Strategy Engine and Knowsy® decision agility platforms. The author of four books, numerous articles and cited as an inventor on more than a dozen patents, Luke is an internationally recognized expert in Agile Software Development. Luke co-organized the first Agile conference in 2003, has served on the Board of the Agile Alliance and in partnership with the Scrum Alliance produced the "Collaboration at Scale", the world's largest monthly webinar devoted to helping organizations with 10 or more Scrum teams in 2 or more locations scale agility. Luke is a highly sought after speaker has as keynoted such conferences as the Agile Alliance conference, Agile Australia, Lean-Agile Scotland, Agile New Zealand, the Austrian Innovation Forum, the CXPA and the SAFe Summit. Luke's is the co-founder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and nonprofit organizations collaboratively solve problems that are unsolvable without civic engagement. EVEF has been a leader in the Participatory Budgeting movement, helping citizens prioritize hundreds of millions of dollars through Budget Games. In partnership with The Kettering Foundation (www.kettering.org), Conteneo created Common Ground for Action, the first scalable platform for deliberative decision-making. A former United States National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion, Luke likes playing with his four kids, his wife’s cooking and long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains. Luke’s an old school Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Instead of building companies to flip, he builds companies that make the world better! We talk about For the different stages of a company’s growth, how can they collaborate using games to get results? How can a company go about finding the right Investment Banker? How important is teaching financial literacy?   What is project based, learning-by-doing? And much more     Connect with Luke Hohmann (5) Luke Hohmann | LinkedIn lukehohmann@yahoo.com firstroot.co 

139 Disruptive Technology with Guillaume Jaulerry Guillaume Jaulerry is a proven entrepreneur focused on wearable hardware, data security, cybersecurity. Global senior technology leadership experience. Solving security, privacy, and portability of all data for both consumer and enterprise markets.  International experience in 3 continents, working in sectors like fashion, auto parts, finance, international trade and manufacturing.   He started at very young age to play puzzle, having fun building computers in the 90's, gamer with Gameboy/snes and building experience in Company internship. Self-taught and curious, he was passionate in understanding all level of a company from delivering or packing to working in account and exporting/importing product from South Africa or Asia.    Multi-faceted entrepreneurs, inventor, bodyboarder, old school skater and fascinated by created a new system in the information field.    He wanted to create something unique, that's why he is the Founder and CEO of O, the first mini server into a wearable device to manage and store data. We talk about Why would one want to manufacture their products in the USA vs overseas? Is a four-day workweek the best work strategy for a dynamic startup? What is a bigger problem with network security, the software, or the hardware? What’s it like growing a startup in stealth mode? And much more     Connect with  Guillaume Jaulerry gjaulerry@ocompany.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-jaulerry-6351721a/

138  Corporations, Governments, and the People with Samira Khan   Samira Khan is a social impact changemaker + intrapreneur passionate about empathy-driven, innovative approaches to advancing societal wellbeing and solving global challenges.— This includes through tech, cross-sector business model innovation, art, education, & engagement. She believes that unlocking human potential lies in true empowerment - one amazing way to unleash this potential, for the good of society, is social entrepreneurship + innovation. So, she does all that she can to support those worlds, and is interested in corporate social venturing + venture building, impact VC, & venture philanthropy. I’m especially committed to women, children, youth, marginalized communities, & cross-sector partnerships to address climate change. However, we can’t even get support to those entrepreneurs or segments without shifting mindsets and behaviors/actions toward those vulnerable communities, especially amongst corporate changemakers. The key lies in more transparent access to info. and knowledge + the shared narrative written by the individuals & institutions involved. And this includes co-creating solutions, elevating creative voices, and illuminating the intersection of people & planet through cross-pollination of ideas. Aspiring to drive greater capital commitments to the SDGs / sustainability and high value solutions that bring human beings closer to their purpose - whatever that may uniquely be. Keen on ethical / well-being tech. ~14 years of experience across continents + sectors, w/a commitment to learning & listening, holistic models, & systems change. Focus on Black & Brown communities in the US + Asia / emerging markets. Specialties: Strategy development & implementation; interagency coordination / stakeholder engagement & facilitation; market / customer assessments; tech product innovation; CSR / social innovation; impact reporting; customer experience analyses; business development; monitoring, evaluation & learning / impact measurement & mgmt; sentiment analysis; economic pathways + education; gender; JEDI. Her personal mission: "Empathy is the most powerful force to rewire hearts & minds for the greater wellbeing of society - without empathy, purpose means nothing and sustainability is impossible." We talk about  Who is driving more of this movement for global impact; the corporations, the governments, the stockholders, the citizens or who and why? How can startups benefit from this wave of thought?   What global changes are we going to be seeing in the years to come? How would one go about living a purpose-driven life and creating a world of Changemakers? And much more     Connect with Samira Khan (28) Samira Khan | LinkedIn Twitter: @samiraakhan Clubhouse: @samirakhan

137 Israel and Silicon Valley with Shlomi Kofman Shlomi Kofman began his term as Israel’s Consul General to the Pacific Northwest in August 2017. Prior to this appointment he served as a Policy Advisor to the Deputy Foreign Ministers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters in Jerusalem, Israel.   Over the course of his 20-year diplomatic career, Kofman has served as Israel’s Deputy Consul General in New York City, Chief of Staff to Ambassadors in Washington D.C., Deputy Ambassador in Thailand and Deputy Consul General in Shanghai. His past domestic Foreign Ministry positions include Director of North American Economic Affairs, Policy Advisor to the Deputy Foreign Minister, Diplomatic Advisor & Director of the International Department in the Parliament and Ministry of National Infrastructure, and the Head of the Northeast Asia sector. Prior to joining the Foreign Ministry, Kofman worked in the high-tech industry representing the Israeli company Orbot in South Korea, as well as a consultant to a leading Israeli company, ECI. Kofman holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations & East Asian studies from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Master’s from Webster University – Shanghai University of Finance & Economics. He also holds an Associate’s engineering degree. Kofman was born in Tbilisi, the capital of the Soviet Republic of Georgia and made Aliya (immigrated) to Israel at the age of nine, after being refused for three years by soviet authorities. He has been married for 20 years to Sharon and they have two children, Emma and Jonathan.   We talk about   What’s an average day like for a consulate general in Silicon Valley? What are the perks or benefits the government has provided to encourage entrepreneurism among the citizens? How important are bilateral agreements for economic development?   How advanced is the technology in Israel for desalination of water? And much more   Connect with Shlomi Kofman The Consul General (embassies.gov.il) (7) Shlomi Kofman | LinkedIn

135 Selling your Company with Shawn Flynn Shawn Flynn started as a business owner, founding, and growing a successful company in Beijing China before returning to the US to work with companies ranging from fast growing Silicon Valley startups to established overseas public companies. He brings his international experience working with all stages and sectors of businesses to his role as Principal at a premier middle market investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UCSD and speaks Mandarin and Spanish (lived abroad for almost 8 years) and he is the host of the award-winning Podcast "The Silicon Valley Podcast" You can contact Shawn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnpflynn/ Podcast https://link.chtbl.com/TheSiliconValleyPodcast   We talk about Why would someone want to work with an Investment Banker to Sell their Business?            Why do companies decide to sell their business? What are the steps involved, with selling a business? How does one go about putting a value on their company? And much more...     Connect with  ShawnFlynn Shawn Flynn’s LinkedIn Account