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Adam Jackson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
632 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

And so, yeah, the equity in my dev shop is not worth anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

So there's no reason to raise money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

It was a pre-negotiated term of those rounds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

So you've heard of SAFEs, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Simple Agreement Future Equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

These investors bought SAFs, Simple Agreement Future Tokens.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

SAFs have conversion caps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

SAFs have conversion caps, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

And so there was a conversion cap in the SAF.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

It's different levels for different SAFs, but-

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

They were all somewhere below a dollar, basically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

And that's the conversion price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Most of the VCs are still locked up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

The some that have been unlocked are in circulation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

I think it's roughly the same ballpark.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

I think, so what's interesting is token projects on par kind of raise less money

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

than equity projects because the community is doing more of the work, right?