Structure Your Startup like a Serial Founder

Mercury

Join Immad Akhund and John Bautista, Partner in Orrick's Silicon Valley office, for a discussion on structuring your startup.

Join Immad Akhund and John Bautista, Orrick Partner and co-lead of the Emerging Companies Group, for a discussion on every legal optimization you can make to structure and build your startup.They&#x27;ll discuss:<ul><li>Founder preferred: make it 10x easier to do founder secondaries</li><li>Founder dual class: set up structures used by Google and Facebook (and know when it doesn&#x27;t make sense to)</li><li>Board seats and votes: set up a board that protects founders</li><li>Performance vesting for follow-on equity grants: learn how to offset dilution</li></ul>...and lots more.This talk will take place live on Zoom. Immad will moderate and take questions from viewers.About the speakers:John Bautista, Orrick Partner and Board Director: John Bautista, a partner in the Silicon Valley office, co-leads the Emerging Companies Group, which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. He is a board member and co-founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, as well as an advisor and co-founder of Clerky.comImmad Akhund, Mercury Founder and CEO: Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO at Mercury, a tech company building banking for startups. Prior to founding Mercury, Immad was the CEO and co-founder at Heyzap, a mobile developer tools company, which sold for $45m in 2016. He is an active investor in Silicon Valley and has invested in 100+ seed-stage startups including Airtable, Substack, and Rappi.

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