Henry Rouquairol / A weekly money briefing
Money for Operators
Money stories for founders, operators and anyone holding equity. IPOs, exits, fintech, fraud, sudden wealth, and all the expensive decisions clever people still manage to get wrong.
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What happens when your company goes public?
Your equity doesn't just turn liquid. It turns emotional, taxable, and suddenly everyone you know has an opinion on it.
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The Money Brief
A story a week, and nothing to buy at the end of it.
- The story.What actually happened, in plain English.
- The money lesson.What it tells you about incentives, risk or behaviour.
- The trap.Where clever people usually get caught.
- The question.Something to think about. Not an instruction to follow.
Who writes this
I've made most of these mistakes myself.
I'm Henry Rouquairol. I've been the founder with the paper valuation, the operator watching the runway, and the angel writing cheques into other people's companies. Money for Operators is the notebook from all three seats. The mistakes in these stories are not hypothetical.
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