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August 20, 2012 09:00 pm GMT

Founders Fund Launches A More Transparent Term Sheet

Screen Shot 2012-08-20 at 8.38.37 AMYes, the nine-figure exits and even acquihire stories certainly do seem glorious in the TechCrunch headlines every day. But what do founders actually walk away with? It's often a very different picture when dilution, taxes and retention are factored in.Founders Fund, the irreverent venture firm from Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel and Sean Parker, is shedding light on how term sheets ultimately affect outcomes for founding teams. They've created a so-called "transparent" term sheet that calculates how options pools, dilution and liquidation preferences impact returns for founders in different exit scenarios.

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