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		portman on July 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others >> Slack will also let employees and other shareholders sell equity to investors as part of the deal Translation: partial liquidity for founders and early employees.

Kiro on July 27, 2017 [–]

So that means not all of the $250M is going into the company? How common is that?

marcins on July 27, 2017 | [–]

Common enough, Atlassian did the same thing a few years before it's IPO - in this case all the money went to employees:

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/atlassian_closes_60_...

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