It's been a while since I've seen it, but in one part of the movie the guys are trying to buy out their buddy for $1 per share. I think he holds out for more money and ends up getting like $700 grand or something. Did the guy end up getting paid all of that money, or not? Because I read that the two founders ended up with nothing after it was over. But that's a pretty good return on a ~20K investment, I hope he got paid.
shareI had been wondering the same thing. Hope he took a lump sum payout when he was packaged out.
shareI seem to remember (although it's barely audible) that Tom says "cash or equity" and I thought Chi said "not cash" or something, but that confused me because that was whole point to get cash. I'm pretty sure they bought him out. If you watch the Enron doc "Enron: The smartest guys in the room" there was a similar thing going on there, and coincidentally also and asian guy who walked with some rediculous amount like $250 million (and married his impregnated stripper girlfriend to boot!) before the poop hit the fan.
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I like how in one phone call it goes from 500 thousand, down to 400, up to 800, ending on 700,000 dollars.
This sums up why the dotcom bubble burst... Reality will catch up eventually.
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