Before we get started - I made a startling revelation last week. Hot Topic, the counter-culture, grunge, gothic corner of your local mall, is PRIVATE EQUITY OWNED!!! Yeeesh. Talk about being a sellout. That is SOOO not Punk Rock.
As someone who used to (secretly) fit into their demographic (I actually think I still have a Sum 41 tee kickin’ around somewhere), they should have asked me or the guys from Fall Out Boy for advice before going the LBO route.
Speaking of advice…
I asked my network of CFOs, VCs, and Substack writers, as well as our punk rock Mostly metrics readers:
When’s the best time to join a startup?
If you are trying to learn, accelerate your career, and maximize your equity outcome, when do you hop on board?
Weighing the chance of failure, if you had to do it 10 times over, you’d bet: [Series X]…
Here are the best responses I got, along with my own take:
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