Startup Company Structure - Calculating valuation, equity, dilution

Who Am I?
I am Rajat Yadav, an IIT Madras Alumnus and the founder of one of India's earliest and then largest mobile lending apps - 'Z2P'. Having built Z2P from scratch, raising multiple funding rounds and finally selling my startup to PayMate, I am on a journey to build more meaningful businesses and share my knowledge in the process.

Some of the most asked topics in the startup world are - how is a company formed? How do you calculate valuation? What is paid-up capital? What are equity and dilution?
Answering and explaining, in detail, all of these.

[alaminriad]

I can't figure out that how did u calculate The value of X which come out 1000?? Can u help me?

[ankitkedia]

A simple way of saying is both will give 10% of their share. 10% of 80% and 10% of 20%. 8% and 2%. Algebra is not required ; )

[bharatdubey]

Sir u are underrated and u will be underrated becz not everyone is entrepreneur mindset and wanna learn...
Only top 2-3% who are genuinely interested in these topics searched and reached u... Don't stop creating contents thank u.

[TheTczar]

your method of coaching is amazing. you should write a book of all these videos.

[chernohmansaray]

I have learned within 40min of your video that have done with my four years into academic degree.

[BlueChipMart]

yes exactly... even i know almost 70 80% but my few doubts were cleared thank you.. 1 more thing right no video or content is available on youtube but i have made videos on in or teach to my students same as u take all these example like this... !

[dorcenviliere]

When you were explaining for the 3rd Investors (80%/20%) and the third one ask for 10% of the company, you could’ve just said that the initial shareholders will just give him 10% of their percentage and it will be (8% + 2% = 10%) and they will be (72%, 18%, 10%)

There is nothing wrong but this could be faster for you.
But great video man👌🏼🔥Thanks

[arth_chart]

50-4.5= 55.5 ☺️ IITians are not superhuman they also make mistakes just like any other college students, dekh k acha laga.

[esahansikder]

Everyone must understand this, even before going for a Pitch.
will save a lot of time.

[maverickgamer]

i've bootstrapped my company and based on my Y2Y revenue my company valuation is 10 cr and I yet to take any investment. thanks for explaining the basics so I can go for the first round.

[yogya]

Sir, you are literally too much undervalued.!

[sammyvoma]

Doing Great job bro..Watched your all videos in one go...Helped me a lot.Thanks a lot.

[ppp]

Best explanation, Please add more video on this topics

[FaithandHope]

Thank you for this knowledge i'm about to startup a new company and had absolutely no knowledge on how to share equity or structure the company, i was about to pay a legal advisor or a consultant to assist me with this negotiation due to investors waiting to invest in my company, now i can do it on mt own and fully understand what i'm doing without being confused or unsure, thanks to this video 🤝

[SovonKar-hi]

Please make more calculation related videos like this, based on investments and startups. You are the only person on YouTube under this category (investments and startups) whose videos are useful in real life !

[ginues]

I got cleared what my doubt that were in Equity dilution. Very much thanks. Very much appreciated for this video.

[JordanDias]

I had already calculated that in my head by simply subtracting 10% for each. However, thanks for explaining the basic concepts of Company, share, etc.

[jesslenathai]

I actually really enjoyed this video! Appreciate you working out the basics, walking thru the concepts in most simplified way. It would have been good if I can understand it so much better after scouring the net to grasp the basics.
🎉

[raajesharya]

You are a genius, Rajat. People need to learn how to melt a stone. Wow!!! Thank you for simplifying such a hard subject.

[sachinn]

Excellent explanation bro... You got my dbts cleared... Thank you so much...