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Seconded. A user-friendly display of intermediate steps would be great for educational purposes.

Building this tool we purposefully steered away from education. We found that the users we talked to, people considering startup jobs who didn't know how to value options, were frequently overwhelmed and discouraged by tools with more educational content.

This tool might spark someone's curiosity, but we purposefully built it for a group that didn't want to have to learn about venture finance and still wanted to work at a startup.

So then I guess my feedback is that exits between $10M and $100M (which are the bulk of >$0 exits for venture backed software companies) should assume the company has only raised ~30% of the exit amount. e.g. A $50M exit for a company that has raised $10M can still make some money for everyone.

But I agree with the premise that the UI for this tool has to be super simple.

Thanks for building this!

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