CASH CLOSING PROCEEDS
Gross deal value minus only closing-day deductions.
THE WIRE IS NOT THE WHOLE RETURN
Audit what the exit actually paid.
Paste a typed ledger. See cash received at close, then subtract historical cash burn and foregone compensation to reveal a separate lifetime economic view.
Source boundary. The post's revenue and identity claims are unverified. The bundled ledger uses its stated $2.1M headline, $180K investor return, approximate $740K remainder, and four-year horizon; other rows are editable illustration.
Typed transaction ledger
years
Load the bundled case or paste a ledger to begin the reconciliation.
ECONOMIC SURPLUS
Cash at close minus prior cash costs and foregone compensation.
PER YEAR
CASH VS ECONOMIC
UNADJUSTED RATIO
Reconciliation waterfall
A sale can create a large wire and a smaller economic surplus at the same time. The useful comparison begins only after every subtraction has the right accounting meaning.
Not tax, accounting, legal, securities, or valuation advice. Equity ownership, taxes, escrow, earn-outs, debt, liquidation preferences, and time value require separate modeling unless entered as explicit rows.