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Carta was my second company. My first company was a robo advisor called Secondsight. It was a bad version of Wealthfront or Betterment. Josh and Andy did a much better job than me and so I shut down my company after two years.When I laid off my first engineer Alexander, he was so kind and supportive. I asked if he w...

CHICAGO — December 1, 2015–Basecamp is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.Founder Jason Fried informed his employees about the new deal at a recent company-wide meeting. The financing round was led by Yardsti...

On December 26th, 2023, I sued Carta for wrongful discharge, retaliation, breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, defamation, implied defamation, false light, publication of private facts, and intentional infliction of emotional distress; in violation of Title VII of the Federa...

For those interested, let me provide more context below.Liquidity has been a problem I wanted to solve for almost a decade. From our Series A deck back in 2014.Nasdaq for Private Markets?We started eShares 10 years ago as the “Nasdaq for Private Markets” (we were not “the captable company”) because I wanted to solve...