Private Stock Sales
Discussions focus on the challenges, regulations, and mechanisms for selling shares in private companies, including employee liquidity, secondary markets, vesting restrictions, and SEC disclosure requirements.
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Gives a chance for people who own stock in companies that don't trade on the stock market, to sell that stock.
why do you assume that? Many stocks have riders to prevent private trading.
Selling shares is putting a gun to their head?
That's not how this works. The stock can't be sold due to vesting.
What in the email tells you they can't sell some portion of shares after a certain number of years?
Aren't they required to make their stock trades public?
I assume there have been secondary stock sales. It's pretty common these days for relatively liquid secondary markets to spring up around tech unicorns. The fact that they aren't "public" doesn't mean that you can't sell; it just means you can't sell to ordinary people. Markets treat regulation as damage and route around it.
Im a complete newb to this. Can someone not sell their shares freely, regardless of public staus, if they do their own marketing?
Isn’t it a thing that company executives have to disclose share sales in advance (and this is very common occurrence because they want to diversify)?
Why not just sell the company's stock like the legacy way ? I suspect some legal loophole here.