<div class="product section" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(233, 234, 236);"><div class="section with_filler with_editable_regions itemized dsss17 startups-show-sections fpt69 product _a" data-startup="{&quot;id&quot;:308670,&quot;product_desc&quot;:&quot;Developer of the Equity Protection Trust, a proprietary approach to protecting large ($10+ million) concentrated stock positions in both public and private companies. \n\nWealth is often achieved by owning a stake in a valuable business. Once achieved, the Equity Protection Trust acts to substantially reduce the risk of a catastrophic \&quot;Black Swan\&quot; event while fully preserving the equity's upside potential.\n\nThe effect is to approximate the risk of a mutual fund on the downside while retaining the single-stock's full upside potential.&quot;}" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 28px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588) 0px 1px 3px 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588) 0px 1px 3px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none !important;"><div class="product_desc editable_region" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="show" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 1.07692em; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Developer of the Equity Protection Trust, a proprietary approach to protecting large ($10+ million) concentrated stock positions in both public and private companies.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Wealth is often achieved by owning a stake in a valuable business. Once achieved, the Equity Protection Trust acts to substantially reduce the risk of a catastrophic "Black Swan" event while fully preserving the equity's upside potential.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The effect is to approximate the risk of a mutual fund on the downside while retaining the single-stock's full upside potential.</p><div>&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div></div><p><a name="founders" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(48, 120, 202); background-color: rgb(233, 234, 236);"></a></p>