After digging into the most common valuation shortcuts in venture capital, a few clear truths emerge: 1️⃣ Cost is not fair value Cost is historical. Fair value is current. IPEV and ASC 820 are explicit: once new information exists, holding at cost stops being conservative and starts being misleading. 2️⃣ Last price per share ≠ portfolio truth LPPS reflects one deal, at one point in time. It ignores preferences, protections, optionality, and changes in performance or market

In Part 1 of our mini-series, we showed why cost ≠ fair value. Now let’s tackle another shortcut: using the last price per share (LPPS) from the most recent round as fair value. Why LPPS Misleads It’s just one round - not all the rounds. It ignores preferences and protections baked into that round and other rounds It treats all shares like common shares , which they’re not. It ignores upside potential across the cap table. At the end of the day, it’s simply the cost of the