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		philip1209 on June 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicke... If common stock is worth anything - you may want to talk to a personal lawyer about whether you qualify for double-trigger acceleration. This could be a good thing.

beambot on June 14, 2017 [–]

> We had to sold it to one of our competitors at a price of one tenth of the our series A valuation.

In this instance, with any sort of standard liquidation preference and dilution (i.e. 20% investor ownership), common stock was probably worthless.

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