Battle Over Startup Leaves Early Investor With No Equity, $2.6 Million Legal Bill [BNN Bloomberg (Canada)]
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Instead, it landed him on the receiving end of a lawsuit, leading to more than $2.6 million in damages against him and his new firm and possibly tens of millions more in legal fees. At issue is a challenge to a fundamental convention in Silicon Valley: whether the startup has denied early investors a return by refusing to switch their decade-old convertible debt commitments into equity, tying up their holdings even as the company has flourished. Without equity, they can't sell their interest in Toptal, making their outlay worth little more than the day they invested. While Silicon Valley relationships between investors and the startups they fund are frequently tense, it's rare for them to boil over into lawsuits. Deals are usually hashed out behind closed doors, struck by founders eager to please their backers and investors wanting to seem founder friendly. Lately, that dynamic has come under strain. As interest rates have climbed and investors have handed out less money, there
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