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I know. Sucks to be them, right?

Helping other people realise their dreams and only making 8/9 figures in the bargain. Can't imagine why they would bother.

Hahaha. This comment is hilarious.

Using that math, the initial investment of 15000 returned 4000x

Dumb question: Why would YC get diluted so much more than DH? I've started to read up on venture financing and this doesn't match my mental model for any of the mechanisms I've learned about. (Like if anything I'd expect YC to have less dilution due to follow-on/pro rata investments, if they did any.)

I believe that when founders stock is fully vested, additional grants are an option to retain the founders beyond 4 years (or whatever the founders stock beating period is). 11 years as CEO likely led to additional grants. For a much bigger example, look at the additional grant Musk got this last week for Tesla.