Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
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Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#2What's the benefit of this paperwork re-arrangement?
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#3Seems like a non-story? Person starts a company and for legal or other technical reasons needs to restructure it. This happens all the time.
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#4Seems like a non-story? Person starts a company and for legal or other technical reasons needs to restructure it. This happens all the time.
and, as per the article, largely self-funded.
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#5"Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company’s assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle" and "all of Sunshine’s employees will move to the new company".
Under what conditions is it better to buy the assets and hire the employees instead of just change the name and product offering of the company? Is it just to get the investors off the cap table?
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#6What's the benefit of this paperwork re-arrangement?
restructuring
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#7This person has a history of failures venturing on their own.
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#8"Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company’s assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle" and "all of Sunshine’s employees will move to the new company". Under what conditions is it better to buy the assets and hire the employees instead of just change the name and product offering of the company? Is it just to get the investors off the cap tabl…
Clean cap table is quite valuable.
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#9But of course she will.
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#10"due to privacy concerns about privacy"
This strikes me as a particularly funny typo