Matthew Prince
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1,742 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2019
last heard 10 Jun
Matthew Prince’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm like, we're not going to.
Because you can take 5% of an IPO and allocate it to friends and family.
And I didn't want to get my aunt, if the stock went down or something, I didn't want to have to explain that over Thanksgiving dinner.
And he said, no, no, no, you're thinking about it wrong.
Think about the people who, if they owed you a favor, that they could make a meaningful difference in the future of Cloudflare and then offer them to the ability to invest in the IPO.
I was like, is that legal?
He's like, check with your lawyers, check with the bankers, but the answer is yes.
I was like, some people are going to have conflicts.
He said, it doesn't matter.
Just the fact you offered it, even if they can't do it, will mean that they'll always remember that super fondly.
It was incredibly good advice.
We made this crazy list.
of all of these, you know, people who, you know, who were like, you know, at some point that might be an important relationship, uh, for us.
And like 75% of them said yes.
And, and they all made, you know, a ton of money as a, as a result of it.
And it was, um, it was, it was one of those kind of, now your aunt doesn't talk to you anymore.
Well, yeah, my aunt doesn't talk to me.
How could you?
I am always comforted that we actually – so we priced it $15 a share and it went up to – and that's actually the other thing that's interesting.
Everyone – like Bill Gurley and I have fights about this from time to time about IPOs.
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