Liquidation Preference

  

See: Preferred Stock. See: Liquidity Preference.

You get liquid ahead of everyone else. That is, you have a preference with your preferred shares, such that you get to sell them...or rather, get paid back your investment before the common shareholders get a dime.

Liquidity preference: a good thing if you have it.

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