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Wonderful idea. These exchanges are very common in other markets. In my experience, a proclivity for equity sharing tends to have an adverse selection problem w
by danicgross 6y ago
Wonderful idea. These exchanges are very common in other markets. In my experience, a proclivity for equity sharing tends to have an adverse selection problem with early stage founders. The best founders are irrational, and this seems like a highly rational idea :)
But I’d imagine investors and employees would be very interested. Also worth noting tax treatment around this issue is evolving:
> In particular, a senior campaign official said a Biden administration would take aim at so-called like-kind exchanges, which allow investors to defer paying taxes on the sale of real estate if the capital gains are reinvested in another property.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-21/biden-proposes-775-billion-plan-funded-by-real-estate-taxes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-21/biden-pro...
- csentropy 6y agoThank you. One more risk founders and entrepreneurs need to brace for : Regime uncertainty. Political uncertainty added to market risk, macro, pandemics, on and on...
- geoburke 6y agoRemoving like-kind exchange wouldn't just affect this. The whole M&A space would collapse.
- csentropy 6y agoThat is a great point. We spent a lot of time thinking about the adverse selection issue.We narrowed in on Peer selection with stable matching, which seems to mitigate this issue. We are learning..