Dinesh Kandanchatha

a couple of hundred grand over a year.

So they have to generate, you know, Between the retainer plus the options and multiple times the exercise price.

Millions of dollars in value.

Accredited investors are investors that have net assets greater than $5 million, have earning in the last two years of greater than, it depends by market, but I think $200,000, if it's a single individual, if it's a family, it's 300.

And there's a few other things, but the idea is that you are accredited to take part in highly risky and speculative transactions.

I think it can be anything.

I'm not a lawyer, but I, I believe it's, it's, you know, it's kind of your personal balance sheet.

It's personal money.

So I, I've been very fortunate and blessed to do, uh,

A bunch of startups, some have failed.

A couple have been fairly successful.

So the result is I try to reinvest those gains back in private companies.

And I do to the tune of

two a year.

I probably see around 20 deals a year of which I would invest in two.

Um, and a bunch of the other ones I continue to advise 20 deals you invest into about how much reinvesting in each company between 75 and 150 K depending on what's there.

And, you know, it's small, it's small money, I guess in some ways, usually, right?

Yeah.

And I'm really early.

I'm pre series a often precede.