Which is exactly why I don’t understand how the company benefits from it.

Alex Van de Sande

Sep 6, 2017·1 min read

Which is exactly why I don’t understand how the company benefits from it. If they want to denote long term, why not buy the tokens now and then lock them up for a year?

Alex Van de Sande

Designer, Ethereum Foundation, Mist Browser.

Normally you’d keep acquisition targets to yourself, but in this case, the bigger company states to the world that it’d like to buy a large portion of shares in the future of that startup and it has set aside money to do so. That sort of announcement would for sure (in the eyes of others) grow the value of the shares of the smaller company. This offer would only be available at that point in the future — so there is no capability for toke…

Thanks for the comments — I see this as co-creation of this concept :)

Carsten Munk