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John Younger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
165 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

And so it occurred to me that to separate out the companies we wanted to end up with, the final state would be two companies with a completely flat cap table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

So everything's common shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

So to do that, we issued notes to the preferred shareholders and the warrant holders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

So that created a note and transferred their stock to all common shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

And then the new company was created by assuming some portion of those preferred notes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

So the acquiring company was able to basically buy the assets, in this case of the recruitment process outsourcing business, with no cash out, but simply by assuming notes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

So the end result was HireMojo has the original corporate structure, but all common shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

Ecolo Business Services exists and is all flat from an ownership standpoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

And all this was done in a way that was tax neutral.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

Because they're getting paid back, whereas before there was no guarantee of getting paid back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

Well, they lose their preferred rights, but they start getting cash back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

And they were willing to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

Well, let me tell you what it is first, and I'll tell you the model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

So it's really a platform that makes it possible for almost anyone without any recruiting talent or skill to fill jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

So that in itself is remarkable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

So we incorporate this robot and all of the premium for-fee sites that you would typically pay a lot of money to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

I don't want to say their names because I want to be careful about branding issues.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

But if you want to link to something, you can do that through us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

And if you feel like you've got to deal with the monsters under your bed, you can probably do that with us too.