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<ul><li>Startups tend to have a long and uncertain time-to-upside: many people take pay cuts in the hopes that they&#39;ll have a good outcome down the road.</li><li>If after 3-4 years you can be earning more in liquid comp than you would at Facebook, and you also have all your remaining carried equity on top of that, it makes going to work at a startup potentially far more lucrative than going to work at FAANG.</li><li>In the case of a Series B company worth $100M and growing 150% year-over-year, a float of 20% offers a time-to-upside right around 3 years and leaves an employee with $2.2M in carried equity at the end of year 4.</li></ul>

Startups tend to have a long and uncertain time-to-upside: many people take pay cuts in the hopes that they&#39;ll have a good outcome down the road.If after 3-4 years you can be earning more in liquid comp than you would at Facebook, and you also have all your remaining carried equity on top of that, it makes going to work at a startup potentially far more lucrative than going to work at FAANG.In the case of a Series B company worth $100M and growing 150% year-over-year, a float of 20% offers a time-to-upside right around 3 years and leaves an employee with $2.2M in carried equity at the end of year 4.

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<ul><li>Certainly. CartaX is a liquidity platform for companies that are on the path to go public.</li><li>So the ecosystem&#39;s coming, it&#39;s just a matter of time, but those are the three things to start where people can definitely make sure that they&#39;re in a position to win.</li><li>Because an employee can now have the company disseminating the information about why someone should trade on their stock versus an employee saying, wow, I really need to pay off some student debt.</li></ul>

Certainly. CartaX is a liquidity platform for companies that are on the path to go public.So the ecosystem&#39;s coming, it&#39;s just a matter of time, but those are the three things to start where people can definitely make sure that they&#39;re in a position to win.Because an employee can now have the company disseminating the information about why someone should trade on their stock versus an employee saying, wow, I really need to pay off some student debt.

James McGillicuddy, Head Of Strategy At Carta, On Building An issuer-centric Platform And Investing In Secondaries

<ul><li>The problem that CartaX is looking to solve is everything in between.</li><li>Most companies we think are going to start out with a quarterly cadence for their transactions, directly in line with their board meetings.</li><li>We&#39;ve spent the last eight years building infrastructure from the ground up and also signing on private companies and investors.</li></ul>

The problem that CartaX is looking to solve is everything in between.Most companies we think are going to start out with a quarterly cadence for their transactions, directly in line with their board meetings.We&#39;ve spent the last eight years building infrastructure from the ground up and also signing on private companies and investors.

Alessandro Chesser, Former VP Of Sales At Carta, On The Dynamics Of CartaX Auctions And Preparing For Liquidity

<ul><li>And we&#39;re excited to be a part of the cap table and build a relationship longterm.</li><li>We can help with the narrative, the story, the bottoms up view and what we do really well, given our experience and how we&#39;ve done that with past companies.</li><li>We&#39;re doing one actually right now where we are buying series A and series B shares from early shareholders that need liquidity and we have a long hold period that we&#39;re okay with.</li></ul>

And we&#39;re excited to be a part of the cap table and build a relationship longterm.We can help with the narrative, the story, the bottoms up view and what we do really well, given our experience and how we&#39;ve done that with past companies.We&#39;re doing one actually right now where we are buying series A and series B shares from early shareholders that need liquidity and we have a long hold period that we&#39;re okay with.

Arjun Sethi, co-founder Of Tribe Capital, On Investor Allocation Strategies And Democratizing Access To Capital

<ul><li>Yeah, I think so. The main reason people do it is because it&#39;s just one of the more accepted structures to drive liquidity outside of big events like M&amp;A or IPOs or other large exits of sorts.</li><li>And that&#39;s the same discussion now that I think is forcing a lot of founders to think, okay, how do I do this? And I think it will hit you at different points in your maturity level, but generally when we see people get there is like series C and beyond.</li><li>Yeah, for sure. Look, for us, it does start with talent. That&#39;s very much how we started thinking about this and what we hear from most of our customers.</li></ul>

Yeah, I think so. The main reason people do it is because it&#39;s just one of the more accepted structures to drive liquidity outside of big events like M&amp;A or IPOs or other large exits of sorts.And that&#39;s the same discussion now that I think is forcing a lot of founders to think, okay, how do I do this? And I think it will hit you at different points in your maturity level, but generally when we see people get there is like series C and beyond.Yeah, for sure. Look, for us, it does start with talent. That&#39;s very much how we started thinking about this and what we hear from most of our customers.

Charly Kevers, CFO At Carta, On Progressive Price Discovery And Investor Relations

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James McGillicuddy, Head Of Strategy At Carta, On Building An issuer-centric Platform And Investing In Secondaries

Our fifth of 9 expert interviews with VCs, brokers, CFOs, and fund managers on the future of private market liquidity.

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Alessandro Chesser, Former VP Of Sales At Carta, On The Dynamics Of CartaX Auctions And Preparing For Liquidity

Our third of 9 expert interviews with VCs, brokers, CFOs, and fund managers on the future of private market liquidity.

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Arjun Sethi, co-founder Of Tribe Capital, On Investor Allocation Strategies And Democratizing Access To Capital

Our eighth of 9 expert interviews with VCs, brokers, CFOs, and fund managers on the future of private market liquidity.

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Charly Kevers, CFO At Carta, On Progressive Price Discovery And Investor Relations

Our fourth of 9 expert interviews with VCs, brokers, CFOs, and fund managers on the future of private market liquidity.

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