Rohan Inneh’s Member Story

This guest blog has been written by Rohan Inneh. Here’s how AIS helped me leave my corporate consulting job to launch my own consulting & fractional COO offering. Chapter 1 – What is in your hands Joining AIS opened my eyes to the dynamic world of start-ups and scale-ups, and I instantly fell in love…

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How do Pre-Seed Option Pools work?

In 2015, I moved from San Francisco to London and joined a Fintech startup, WordlFirst. They eventually got acquired by Ant Financial for $700m and despite being hired as the first Product Manager, I had no equity and didn’t benefit from the upside of the exit. It taught me a lesson about remuneration at high-growth…

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What is dilution?

What it means, its impact on your portfolio and an example of how it works! At the start of the year, we learned about how JP Morgan acquired a startup called Frank for $175m, to learn that due diligence wasn’t carried out properly and are now clearing out a messy public legal battle. Angel investing…

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