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The Dilemma of When to Sell #venturecapital #siliconvalley #tech

11 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a Precursor Ventures YouTube video about the challenge investors face deciding when to sell startup equity. The speaker contrasts situations where investors were forced to hold with current choices to sell at different headline valuations (mentions $60B vs $90B) and emphasizes that outcomes will vary based on when and how much investors sell, not just when they joined.

I think it also makes this trickier because when you were forced to hold, you were forced to hold. Now you have to decide, do I want to sell my strike at 60 billion or at 90 billion or do I want to keep holding? Because I think it's going to go up and I think you're going to have very interesting distribution of outcomes, not just based on when people join, but when they decided to sell and how much they decided to sell.