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Toptal, a platform that matches businesses with software engineers, is at the top of its game: The company has grown at a rate of 30% for several years and did $200m in revenue last year.
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Toptal, which is believed to be valued at more than $1B, is now 100% owned by Du Val, despite contracts that granted equity to early employees, including co-founder and former COO Breanden Beneschott.
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Beneschott, who was promised 17% of Toptal’s shares, says he was fired after demanding his equity.
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Andreessen Horowitz and others invested $1.5m in Toptal in 2012 in a stake that they expected to be around 15% of the company -- but they, too, haven’t seen any cash.
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Wait… is that even allowed?
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Technically, yes.
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Du Val insists he has no obligation to award anyone equity, saying it’s a smart move not to raise money -- basically,
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a contract’s a contract
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“Silicon Valley runs on the trust that people aren’t going to do something like this,” one Toptal investor told
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The Information
</em>
.
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Now what?
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By the letter of their contracts, Toptal employees and investors have no recourse -- other than straight up asking for their money back or suing Du Val to high heaven.
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People have already tried both: An early Toptal investor asked for (and got) their money back, and Beneschott is now suing Du Val (who, in turn, is suing him right back).
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Convertible notes and similar good-faith equity contracts are becoming more common because they enable founders to raise money more quickly. But on the flipside, they sometimes make promises that businesses never intend to keep.
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To securely store cryptocurrency, Coinbase buys a vault under a mountain in Switzerland
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The budding blockchain behemoth Coinbase
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After the deal closes, Coinbase will have more than $7B in crypto assets under management -- potentially storing as many as 5% of all Bitcoins in circulation.
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Digital currencies still need physical custodians
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Unlike wire transfers at banks -- which leave digital trails and can therefore be recovered when stolen -- blockchain-based transactions leave no trace... and are therefore nearly impossible to trace.
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So the safest place to store crypto keys -- strings of letters and numbers used to access cryptocurrencies -- is not online (where they can be hacked without a trace) but in offline, IRL vaults.
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Now “custodians” like Xapo, which offer physical vaults that consumers want to store their crypto-cash safely, are becoming common.
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Crypto companies are focused on attracting institutional investors who’ve been reluctant to trade cold, hard cash for digital dollar-replacements.
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As a result, Resorts World Catskills, which is about 80 miles from the closest city, has doused its dough and lit it a blaze every quarter since it opened in 2018 (including a $36m loss in Q2 of 2019) -- and now the owners are worried they may have to file for bankruptcy.
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The New York gambling scene already had a lot of players at the table with multiple tribal casinos and more than a dozen race tracks that offer video slots.
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In other words, there was already a war going on out there, and building a gambling mecca more than 80 miles away didn’t give New York’s commercial casino initiative any better odds.
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“None of this is a shock,” longtime gaming industry analyst, Harold L. Vogel told the
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During the dozen years Marion Dodd and Sarah Whitesell worked at salons in Arizona and New York, they grew disgusted at the amount of waste.
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Several garbage cans per week would be filled with hair, aluminum foil that had been used for highlighting, plastic water bottles given to customers, and much more.
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Last year, they opened their own salon in Phoenix, Organic Hair Lab. It is thought to be the only “zero-waste” salon in Arizona -- and one of only a handful of all-organic salons.
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They keep 8 different receptacles in the salon, an 800 square-foot space, for sorting various items.
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“You should see it; it stresses me out,” says Dodd, who (despite dropping out of school at 16) has gone on to pick up three degrees. “You have to be specific about what item goes in which trash can.”
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The hair is collected to be turned into hair booms for oil slicks; the aluminum foil for highlighting is turned into a bioplastic. They throw out one four-gallon garbage bag per month.
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“It’s not even a large bag,” says Whitesell, who competes in styling competitions at the international level.
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Many customers have visited for environmental reasons. Dodd and Whitesell project revenues to increase from $110k last year to $180k this year.
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And Organic Hair Lab has even had a copycat effect in the Arts District of Phoenix: Since opening their zero-waste salon, they say, several other nearby businesses have tried becoming zero-waste.
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Founders: Marion Dodd and Sarah Whitesell
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Employees: 3
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Years in business: 1
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Cost to launch: $60k
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Funding method(s): Personal savings
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1st year revenue: $110k
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Estimated 2019 revenue: $180k
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