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I myself have made a complete application, no financing/business, etc. I bring with me a co-founder who will help make this a reality. I am ready to accompany him 50/50. But, as we both discussed, we need to create some kind of agreement (before starting a business/stock/etc.) that protects me, so if he can`t just walk away with 50% of the business and not get the job done. How should this be implemented? If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or information practices, or if you need to access this Privacy Policy in any other format, please contact us at our designated request address: yclegal@ycombinator.com. All right. So now we understand SAFE And how they are composed. We will talk about dilution and understand how your capitalization tables work. All right. So we`re going to go through that process. So, we`re going to start our business, which Carolyn talked about from the beginning of the startup school course, I think, so I hope it won`t be anything new for you. Next, we`re going to talk about what happens when you raise money on SAFE, some SAFE post-money, and then we`re going to talk about what happens when you hire people and start spending equity on employees.
And then the company will make a price tour. And then what happens to the capitalization table? And now I warn you. This starts to get into the math part of the whole thing, so turn on your brain and keep focusing. All right. So, induction. So say it`s a very simple company, there are two founders, and they share their shares equally between the two. So, in this example, each founder owns 4.625 million shares. Thus, a total of 9.25 million shares are issued and each founder holds 50%. It`s pretty simple, isn`t it? And at this point, in order for them to own these shares, the founders have done the paperwork, they have granted these shares through a limited share purchase agreement and there is an acquisition on these shares as was discussed with Carolyn earlier in the price.
All right. So the next thing that will happen is that this company raises money for a SAFE post-money, and they have collected from two investors. So the first investor comes in pretty early and they invest $200,000 at a valuation cap of $4 million after the money. And then, a little later, Investor B comes in and puts $800,000 at a valuation cap of $8 million after the money. So, if you remember our formulas, the property that investor A has at this point is the amount of money they have invested, divided by the post-money valuation cap that gives them 5% of the business. The same goes for investor B, 800,000 out of 8 million, which gives them 10% of the company. In total, the founders sold 15% of the company at that time. Even if it doesn`t change the actual capitalization chart because these are not shares at the moment, it`s just a SAFE, it`s just a promise to give shares in the future, the founders should know by this time that they have sold 15% of the company. And if they have sold 15% of the company, they can no longer own 100% of the company. Instead of the founders earning 100% of the company together, they have been diluted by the 15%, so that they fall to 85% of the company. So it`s important to have this in your brain when you`re raising money, because while the cap chart, as I said, doesn`t change, the fact that you just sold 15% of the business is an important fact and it`s an important thing to know because you want to make sure you don`t sell too much of the business. because you know there will be a lot of future fundraising that will work with the company and so there will be more dilution in the future.
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