Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Introduction 03:53 - SAFEs 10:15 - Post-money SAFEs 14:35 - Dilution 22:40 - Priced rounds 27:44 - Priced round dilution math 41:07 - Top tips 42:48 - Don't over-optimize 44:08 - Conclusion

I really don’t understand how 1) this is free 2) only has 100k views People try to get rich quick following scams but won’t draw their eyes to real content like YC. YC is doing God’s work 💯

the best explanation on the internet.

Clearest and most coherent explanation of this I’ve ever seen. Thanks Kirsty!

One of the best video regarding SAFE

Great job Kirsty and thank you YC! Keep putting out more of this gold!

Thank you for breaking it down in such a simplistic fashion.

This makes a lot of sense ❤ Thanks Kirsty

I really liked the explanation of SAFe, best I found so far

Thanks Kirsty, my understanding of SAFEs significantly evolved. I always thought SAFEs always get unlocked at the same valuation as the next round but TIL that there can be a valuation cap introduced.

Approachable summary for new founders to understand SAFEs, thank you

It can't be explained better. thanks Kirsty and YC

Thank you Kirsty for a great primer on SAFEs.

Thanks for the presentation. Incredibly informative and helpful.

Fantastic. Simple and easy to understand! Thank you.

Kristy is an amazing instructor ,,, great job

One of the best videos so far on this topic

This presentation was so good, really help me to understand safe and cap table, etc. Awesome help!

Thanks for articulating clearly, she knows her stuff!

@rudeandconfused

4 жыл бұрын

16:10 That's some nice articulating there.

@itsmohdiii3689

3 жыл бұрын

@@rudeandconfused LMAO

Excellent work Kirsty.. Totally explained it super clearly

Kirsty does a fantastic job of explaining how to understand the fund raising process, the fog has lifted. I feel more comfortable about approaching raising capital and need to start thinking about my cap tables.

@consommableechographiealge8418

2 ай бұрын

what is the cap in startup and what is the cap table ?

A great presentation on how to capitalize a venture, through the venture's life-cycle, and how to drive your capital financing process. YC continues to pay dividends.

Just to echo others, thank you! Great info and great explanations.

A perfect presentation - in proper understandable english. She smiles with her eyes😃 The effects - and dilution potential - of the SAFE concept is finally fully understood.

GREAT explanations - super helpful!!!

Thank you very much for this video! Really interesting

This video is gold. Thank you!

thank you kirsty excellent ptesentation, I explained the math sife however I fidnlt catched legal and financial terms, maybe because I am not familiarized with options and stocks or maybe the problem is my weak english but I can feel how much important your presentation for any founder, who know maybe one day I visit YC and you explain all these things in details face to face😊 All my encouragements

Thanks for making life easier. Kirsty Rocks !!!!!!

This was incredible. Can we have the excel sheet where this was calculated? Tried mimicking the calculations, got ~305 shares off, so although most of the #s tally, some are off in last few decimals. If the original is available, can reverse engineer to see where I went wrong?

Information is a precious like gold.

Thanks Kristy.... that was really informative

Best explanation on SAFEs. Thanks

Great video! Just closed a SAFE after watching this

This was EXTREMELY valuable. Would take an entire 1-day, hands-on, scenario planning workshop on this subject. Let’s fire up Excel on the laptop and model these types of scenarios so we (investors and startups) can get smarter about how equity ownership plays out over time. Has anybody built an app to model these types of scenarios?

@thekingstonzone

5 жыл бұрын

Monique Lambert Yes, check out "Carta" scenario modeling. The company used to be called e shares...now called Carta.

@jmanoochb2

5 жыл бұрын

@@thekingstonzone Yes, that exactly.

18:40 question about the dilution, same here!

Very well explained!

Awesome video!

What a beautiful explanation 👏🏽❤️✌🏽

Very simple concept to understand.

Wonderful explanation

Extremely great explanation

Great explanation. Thank you

This is incredible! Thank you!

Loved the content, thanks for sharing on KZread

Great info!

Thanks for sharing. Very helpful.

Thank you!

Excellent video!

That was great! Thanks!

My take home - Do what you need to do with the money and make the company a success

Thanks for the information

@22:40 Why are series A investors negotiating such a large pool increase as a part of the investment in this example? Isn't it better for a company to increase the option pool only as needed?

Great presentation. One thing that you didn't explain and that i can't figure out is the option pool increase. How did you get to 1.695M?

love it!

Can some one please tell me at min 36:15 how did option pool increase happen? ....

Good presentation. How much the company is sold should be based on pre-money valuation? This is how the dilution effect on existing shareholders will be known. Isn't it.

"ok so this step you're going to have to trust me on" - re new options created... yeah she wasn't joking. The formula for new options created, after doing the algebra, is NO = -TOP.R(OC+NPs)-Vpre(-OAO + TOP.OC + TOP.NPs) / Vpre(TOP-1)+TOP.R where NO = new options TOP = target option pool OC = old common stock capitalisation NPs = New Preference shares created (for SAFE holders) Vpre = Pre money valuation OAO = Old available options

@GAMasterMedo

2 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to follow along. What is `R`? Can you put in the sample numbers in the calculation from this video into this equation to make it extra clear?

@andyjbryant

2 жыл бұрын

@@GAMasterMedo Sorry, R is total amount raised. I have a screenshot of a whiteboard with all my workings but when I posted a link here it was removed..

@elijahvdp

2 жыл бұрын

Still quite confusing tbh

@andyjbryant

2 жыл бұрын

@@elijahvdp yeah it is. It’s a bit easier to follow if you could see each step of my workings. TBH I just wanted to validate the ‘just trust me on this’ step from the video and build a model of my own.

@elijahvdp

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyjbryant I totally get it. I was just about ready to contact Kirsty to figure out the details until I saw your post. Thanks!

Great Job

Good Job!

The last q was good Founder investing: safes or loans to the company? Which is better?

Did anyone find the model for the increase in the options pool she talked about?

When you'll upload the lecturer slide?

@Gabebox

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta be accepted to see those ;)

@SantiagoBasulto

2 жыл бұрын

Just screenshots, but useful to follow: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iv_T1kU6ECgptgvEiz6qfuW8RG5s_J616vE3LIG5aGI/edit?usp=sharing

Could someone please share how we are supposed to calculate that 1,695,000 shares for the option pool increase? I think this is an important part of the calculations we as founders need to consider but it is not being explained.

Does the note automatically convert into a preferred share or an ordinary share ?

I think that the lawyers should present this topic as it is heavily skewed towards rights and obligations and the finance stuff is minimal here - simple arithmetic to explain dilution. I'd really want to understand why 8s the structure what are the alternatives and have someone with deep background and practice on fundraising contracts.

Thanks YC

Thanks Kirsty

What if the options pool never got issued out to employees over time. And the directors decide to cut it back? Would it just get prorate get spread across the cap table?

thank you sooo much for sharing your knowledge, extremely helpful. PS : Kirsty you are officially my women crush

good explanation Q: How is a Safe recorded if not a debt and not a share represented in a cap table? ie: for Benefit Corp? Typically a Benefit Corp will have a recital on the Stock certificate issued representing the Articles of Incorporation amendment after 2/3rd of stockholders elect to become a Benefit Corp. This could happen after a safe was issued.

Can I ask for the calculation of the 1.695M shares increase in the option pool?

I am lost on how she got the calculations for the shares, I'm getting different figures. Anyone care to help me clear that up?

Just to make sure I understood: post money the meaning is after raising on priced-shares/Series A?

This is the important stuff.

Kirsty is the best

Well Done Kirsty

thank you!!!!

What happens if one would never have a prices round because the safe money is all it needed to kick off growth on its own?

welcome to my team!

Does anyone know how she calcualted the new issues option poll of 10 % to be 1.695 M shares?

Do you guys know what happens to unexercised options in case of an acquisition? Who's the owner of these ones, in case?

@mohdmajid1

5 жыл бұрын

If there is an vesting acceleration clause, these will be vested immediately . If not,i do not know what would happen

@vincenzochianese2143

5 жыл бұрын

Vested by who? If they're not exercised, nobody owns it. Or maybe they're given back to the owners?

When she refers to “available files with these documents”... “in our website”... what does she mean? In the YC startup founder course program website?

Just learned what SAFE is while watching Shark Tank March 25, 2022. I definitely don't want to owe anyone be owned by someone else.

thanks,

At 22:00 how would you calculate that equity then? You say once equity is given ie; stocks to employees,etc. then you're saying you calculate ie; %85 of the %92.5 remaining? & not from %100 & then how do you treat early investors vs. late in different funding rounds? the original percentage of post-money in that round is locked in & added? it seems in your examples..right?

its post money SAFE. why does the SAFE holder share get diluted after price round ?

How can I decipher the pre-money valuation?

Hi. I think there is a mistake on shares quantity calculation on min (39:11). new group -> [Options available + Lead investor + Other investor] -> 10%+20%+5%=35% old group -> [Founders + Options Issued + SAFE inv A + SAFE inv B] -> 65% - total issued= 9,250,000+650,000+588,235+1,176,470=11,664,705 Hence new group calculation (post money cap): Options available: (10% / 65%)*11,664,705=1,794,570 (-12 shares in video) Lead investor: (20% / 65%)*11,664,705=3,589,140 (+235 shares in video) Other investors: (5% / 65%)*11,664,705=897,285 (+59 shares in video) Do I missed something?

@moj741

10 ай бұрын

I believe you are right

I'm gonna find a startup that has perfected human cloning. I'm buying it and making the entire business model around cloning this woman and then selling a Kirsty clone to every single startup in the world. It will become a benchmark necessity for companies to have in their team in order to secure investment. YC are already 10 steps ahead of me.

Super!

1500 companies .... that's more than a lot. nice presentation

What date did YC begin encouraging Post-Money SAFEs? Seems it was some time in 2018? is a pre-money SAFE more beneficial to an investor than a post-money SAFE?

YC, could you share the link to the model Kirsty shared at 36:10 ?

@FARIKNE1

Жыл бұрын

Any success with getting the model, Ethan?

After watching still didn't understand is there a software for this?

In the 40:12 frame, Is the company or founder able to buy back the preferred shares sold to investors when the company is profitable?

@pzyeon-im8qp

11 ай бұрын

I believe that's a no. Unless investors want to sell their shares and the agreement lets them. When company is profitable all shareholders get dividend after all expenses are deducted.

In the scenario of priced round is less than the Cap, Safe investor should enjoy a discounted valuation.

What happens to employ 5% when we go to seed round and sell 10% of the company? Do they still have 5% or their equity gets reduced to 4.5%?

Does anyone has a sheets template to model this?

what will be formula for 1% of the companys total share capital for anti dilution provision on weighted average provision, since this formula is not applicable C2 = C1 x (A + B) / (A + C) in my case