📝 I lost $5M in startups (i'll tell you the real story) In 2013, at 23, I sold my company. It got rolled into a bigger venture-backed company, and my slice was worth about $5 million on paper. Houses in my town cost $290k back then, so in my head I was set for life. Years later, that bigger company sold too. I got an email saying it had sold (yay!) but that common stock holders were getting $0 (boo!). See, my $5 million was common stock, and that company was doing $35M in revenue at 70%…