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Henry Ward
Personal blog · henrysward.medium.comstartupsbusiness
Henry Ward's personal blog at henrysward.medium.com covers startups and business. Since 2020, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “What I Tell Employees About Negative Press”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Carta CEO Henry Ward's Medium posts as sources on the company's private exchange, its handling of a captable information policy violation, and what he tells staff about negative press.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What I Tell Employees About Negative Press5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-10-25
- Finally, a Private Stock Exchange3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-04
- Liquidity Is Coming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-02
- How We Handle Cap Table Information2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-08
- Carta launches a startup shutdown service2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-08
What Hacker News says?
Carta is building a private exchange, and their CEO alluded to the possibility of using it to raise money in his blog post announcing the trial run. https://henrysward.medium.com/finally-a-private-stock-exchan... Once we have a liquid and active market for our shares, (in our case we have enough liquidity to support ~ $100M of volume per quarter), when we want to raise primary capital we simply sell common shares ou…
Comment linking /finally-a-private-stock-exchange-cartax-3c658f30ac97
on “Abundant Capital”Submitted Carta to exit secondary trading business as a story · 225 points
HN discussionIt’s in the previous post: https://henrysward.medium.com/how-we-handle-captable-informa... > On Friday we had an internal policy violation that affected three companies. I’ve been in touch with the founders and I’m appalled we made that mistake and it should never have happened. It is unacceptable and we’ve dealt with the violation on Saturday morning and are continuing the investigation to make sure it never happen…
Comment linking /how-we-handle-captable-information-c98d85d79277
on “Carta to exit secondary trading business”Submitted Finally, a Private Stock Exchange as a story · 149 points
HN discussionPossibly relevant; a blog by the CEO here on what he tells employees about negative press: https://henrysward.medium.com/what-i-tell-employees-about-ne...
Comment linking /what-i-tell-employees-about-negative-press-7c134e7a601c
on “Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors”Submitted Liquidity Is Coming as a story · 129 points
HN discussionThis Medium post by the same CEO a few months ago ( https://henrysward.medium.com/what-i-tell-employees-about-ne... ), presumably written in response to a few ongoing scandals, isn't much better.
Comment linking /what-i-tell-employees-about-negative-press-7c134e7a601c
on “Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors”Submitted How We Handle Cap Table Information as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carta launches a startup shutdown service as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finally, a Private Stock Exchange (CartaX) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Carta Conclusions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carta Series G as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Liquidity is coming. (Introducing CartaX) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Tell Employees About Negative Press as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carta offering turnkey option financing for employees as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Tell Employees About Negative Press as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Tell Employees About Negative Press as a story · 1 points
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