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Brisbourne: The Math Behind Anti-Dilution (With Examples)

Well – I fell off that particular horse. That would be the “I’ll blog daily about the best VC blog post of the past 24 hours.” I could make some snarky comment about how there weren’t any for the last few weeks, but that wouldn’t be true. I just fell of the horse. But yesterday, […]

Well – I fell off that particular horse. That would be the “I’ll blog daily about the best VC blog post of the past 24 hours.” I could make some snarky comment about how there weren’t any for the last few weeks, but that wouldn’t be true. I just fell of the horse. But yesterday, when I was at an SVB event talking to a bunch of SVB people, a long time friend said “thanks so much for writing the VC Post of the Day – it saves me a ton of time looking through all the VC blog posts.” So I got back on the horse.

Today’s post of the day is from Nic Brisbourne (DFJ Esprit) and it titled What is anti-dilution/downround protection? Nic covers narrow-based, broad-based, and full ratchet anti-dilution with real examples using real math.

Note to self: that was easy – five minutes, done.

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