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Carta to exit secondary trading business

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Re: Carta to exit secondary trading business

#31
When a company says something like:

“Fast forward to today, our business is broken down as follows: the captable business is about $250M/year, fund administration is about $100M, private equity is about $20M, and the secondary trading business is about $3M.”

Is that assumed to be yearly revenue? Earnings? Something else?

Re: Carta to exit secondary trading business

#34
post #31

When a company says something like: “Fast forward to today, our business is broken down as follows: the captable business is about $250M/year, fund administration is about $100M, private equity is about $20M, and the secondary trading business is about $3M.” Is that assumed to be yearly revenue? Earnings? Something else?

I’d assume annual since the first number says “/year”, but that blows my mind captable mgmt is $250M in annual revenue.

Re: Carta to exit secondary trading business

#35
I’m CEO of Linear who raised the alarm on this.

I have to commend them for making this decision and removing the conflict of interest.

However they didn’t address the fact that sales people had convenient access to data and how long & broadly that access was abused.

Edit: fixed “Linear CEO” to “CEO of Linear”

Re: Carta to exit secondary trading business

#36
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about an excel sheet?

I have a competitive product and excel is a very valid option but if you want automation for anything like this, you really need something like us hit me up on DM if you want a demo

Just post a link and tell us why we should trust you. It's an appropriate time/place for you to self-premote imo.

Re: Carta to exit secondary trading business

#38

I thought his responses were terrible and worthy of being fired over the weekend, but I am impressed with his quick action on this. I guess you can put me down as “neutral” towards this person.

dude pretty clearly got his cheeks clapped by everyone around him, presumably including the board/vcs who invest in carta.

Re: Carta to exit secondary trading business

#39
So are they spinning the secondary trading business off into a separate company, or shutting it down completely?

If they shut it down, their claimed US$8 billion market cap goes poof, doesn't it? Maintaining cap tables as a service can't be good for more than a few million a year in revenue.

Re: Carta to exit secondary trading business

#40

Separate of what did or didn’t happen here, I hope more companies crack the secondary market puzzle. The current environment really sucks for startup employee liquidity and might be going on for a lot longer.

Yes. Btw, what are someone’s potential liquidity alternatives for ISO options in profitable private startups?

What’s an alternative to Carta’s solution?

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