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Lucas and Luna examine the mechanics of startup liquidity events—IPOs, SPAC mergers, direct listings, and acquisitions—through the lens of recent filings, valuation history, and founder outcomes. Each episode starts with a specific deal: the pricing decision at an IPO roadshow, the negotiation dynamics of a term sheet, or the lockup expiration that defines a founder's final payout. They track the numbers that matter: share dilution, insider participation, valuation step-ups, and the real multiples that investors demand at each stage. Lucas brings the journalistic rigor—company filings, SEC comments, historical precedents—while Luna focuses on the founder's perspective: how much control they retain, how they time their exit, and what liquidity actually means for their personal balance sheet. Together, they avoid the cheerleading common in startup media and instead ask hard questions: Did this deal serve the founders or the VCs? What does the secondary market tell us about the company's real worth? How do lockup agreements protect or trap early investors? The show is built for founders considering an exit, investors sizing up IPO allocations, and anyone who wants to understand the financial engineering behind the headlines. After each episode, the listener walks away with a clearer picture of a specific liquidity event—not as a success story or cautionary tale, but as a case study in negotiation, timing, and market psychology. What was the last deal that paid off for everyone—and who got left behind?
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In this episode of The Startup Exit Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the rise of rolling closes — a financing strategy where startups raise capital incrementally over months instead of one big round. With the IPO window s
In this episode of The Startup Exit Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack Supabase's stunning valuation jump from $5 billion to $10 billion in just eight months. They explore what the open-source Firebase alternative is doing d
Lucas and Luna unpack the unexpected news that Founders Fund is launching a startup game show featuring Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey. They explore what this means for founder liquidity, exit strategies, and the evolving
In this episode, we explore the rise of secondary markets for startup equity, where founders and early employees can cash out before an IPO or acquisition. With the IPO window still narrow in mid-2026, platforms like For
For thirty years, Benchmark Capital was the purest bet on early-stage venture: nothing but seed and Series A, nothing but the first check into companies like eBay, Uber, and Instagram. Then, in June 2026, Benchmark raise
In this episode of The Startup Exit Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a growing trend among startup founders: cashing out part of their equity through secondary sales before a liquidity event. They anchor on the recent $40
In this episode of The Startup Exit Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the case of Cyera, the cloud data security startup that is reportedly targeting a $12 billion valuation despite still operating at a loss. They break
In this episode of The Startup Exit Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the rising trend of direct listings as an alternative to traditional IPOs. They break down the Spotify model, why companies like Coinbase and Slack chos
Lucas and Luna dive into defense tech darling Mach Industries, which just hit a $1.8 billion valuation in under four years — a 4x jump in the past year alone. They explore how founder Ethan Thornton built a hardware comp
In this episode of The Startup Exit Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into a surprising regulatory hurdle that could delay SpaceX's long-awaited IPO: water access. As SpaceX prepares to go public, a permit dispute over water
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how startup founders are increasingly using secondary stock sales to de-risk their personal finances years before a traditional exit. They examine the case of fintech company Ramp,
This episode of The Startup Exit Podcast explores the growing trend of founders selling secondary shares before an acquisition or IPO. Lucas and Luna use the recent example of a hypothetical late-stage AI startup to expl
This episode of The Startup Exit Podcast explores a quiet but growing trend: founders using revenue-based financing to create early liquidity without selling equity or rushing to an IPO. Lucas and Luna examine a real-wor
A group of Snap alumni just launched Ghost Angels, a new kind of venture fund that doesn't write its own checks. Instead, it gives dozens of former Snap employees money to invest as individual scouts in early-stage AI st
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore why a growing number of tech founders are choosing direct listings over traditional IPOs as their primary exit strategy. They break down the mechanics, the cost savings, and the tr
When Nvidia spent $20 billion acquiring a team it couldn't hire, the AI chip world took notice. But Groq, the startup that builds custom inference chips, just raised $650 million without being acquired. Lucas and Luna di
Glean, the AI-powered enterprise search company, just crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue. But here's the twist: its biggest selling point is no longer helping employees find information faster — it's cuttin
Anthropic just raised $65 billion at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, setting up what could be the biggest AI IPO in history. Lucas and Luna break down how the company got here, what the structure of this round tells
When Spotify went public via a direct listing in 2018, it was seen as a rebellion against the traditional IPO. But eight years later, the 'Spotify model' has quietly become the blueprint for a new wave of high-profile ex
In this episode of The Startup Exit Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down the headline-making $1 billion raise by AI coding startup Cognition Labs at a $25 billion pre-money valuation. They unpack what this number means for
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