Stripe Announced Tender Offer to Provide Employee Liquidity

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Written By Rick Watson

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses that enables them to handle online payments and other financial services.

Stripe partnered with investors to offer former and current employees a $65B tender offer, with some capital used to repurchase shares to offset dilution from its employee equity compensation program. Is this the new reality for late-stage private companies?

Stripe: Stripe announces tender offer to provide employee liquidity

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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