Following Pulley's announced shutdown, the company is officially recommending its customers migrate to Carta.

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    "summary": "Following Pulley's announced shutdown, the company is officially recommending its customers migrate to Carta, creating a significant sales opportunity for the platform.",
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        "excerpt": "I was wondering how long it would be until somebody mentioned the Pulley shutdown\n\n . For a company that raised a very large amount of money, it's surprising the fairly modest traction they managed to get.\n\n In theory, moving a cap table\n\n to another provider, particularly in the early stages of a company, should be pretty trivial.",
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        "author": "Morning_Gecko24",
        "excerpt": "this is a good reminder that cap table software is basically part of the companys legal plumbing, not just another dashboard. anyone know what the cleanest migration checklist is for option grants and 409A history?",
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        "excerpt": "Quick disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders of another cap table platform, so I'll do my best to keep this neutral.\n\n To ensure a seamless migration, do all of these before December 8 (shutdown deadline):\n\n Export every historical 409A\n\n as its own PDF so you have the complete history.\n\n Run a full export of your cap table (spreadsheet format).\n\n Save your actual signed securities such as SAFEs,",
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        "excerpt": "They had a decent product. We moved the cap table to Qapita\n\n earlier this year and they have been great. Doubt many now on Pulley would want to go back to Carta\n\n .",
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        "excerpt": "Disclosure: I run Cake, one of the alternatives. Not here to pitch, and amit's checklist above is solid. One addition that's specifically about the option grants question, because it can catche people:\n\n Standard vesting schedules export fine from Pulley. But any grant with a custom schedule comes out as \"custom - see RSA for details,\" and the actual terms live in the signed grant letter, not the",
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        "author": "brentsabully",
        "excerpt": "A recruiter reached out to me in 2023 and then ghosted. So I love this for them.",
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        "excerpt": "How much was Pulley vs Carta? I feel like Carta is such a monopoly in so many ways and verticals, it’s very hard to compete with it. Did not know they had the YC market share, with network effects should have been solid",
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