made me wonder who hubby was, so saving others the wikipedia search
> Tecco is married to Jeff Hammerbacher, cofounder of Cloudera
> Tecco is married to Jeff Hammerbacher, cofounder of Cloudera
TFA identified a few exits that should have returned some money that did not. ensuring protection of minority shareholder rights so that this doesn't happen is an important "plug leaks in your game" hygiene
Most exits in that range are where the exit is less than the capital raised, or a little more but where the last round raised was questionable and was done on terms that the minority shareholders may complain about but where they didn't have any other option - they were hosed no matter what.
I've seen hundreds of them. And it has little to do with size of position, it's where you sit in the preference stack. Anyone who thinks that early round investors should get a pay out on an exit no matter what just doesn't understand pretty basic finance.
"exit" != success, for anyone involved, usually.
But no terms are going to save you from the reality that a failing startup that needs to raise more money will have to accept dilutive terms. You might be able to restrict it, but the alternative is that they can’t raise at all and shut down.