Comment by mcny
3 months ago
I thought the whole point of LLC was to limit liability so you wouldn't be liable for debt beyond your paid up capital? Why would you ever sign a personal guarantee?
3 months ago
I thought the whole point of LLC was to limit liability so you wouldn't be liable for debt beyond your paid up capital? Why would you ever sign a personal guarantee?
>Why would you ever sign a personal guarantee?
So that they will lend you the money...
It's not always required, depends on the amount and the business.
The liability I’m shielded from is not debt I specifically requested. I’m shielded from unknown events.
Why would the CEO have the personal liability here and not the board? Does Sundar Pichai have to personally guarantee loans for Google? That would be weird since the CEO could be fired.
No, but this person’s LLC is not capitalized quite as well as Google, and the bank is adjusting the loan to account for that fact.
banks are not stupid… you can’t just open LLC, borrow billion bucks, spend it and then be like “oops, LLC mates, not liable”
You can if you are Meta and are willing to litigate the hell out of it.
“If you are meta” in this case means “if you have a billion dollars already, and a credit rating that you don’t want to destroy.
Nobody is trying to pull one over on a bank here. Pricing the risk of the loan is a bank’s whole business, they’re happy to loan to meta because meta is meta, and they’re a good candidate for a loan.
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Do you think any CEOs of gigantic corporations are personally liable for any loans made by the companies they work for? I would be incredibly, incredibly surprised to hear if that's the case.
Then why don't they do it? It's the easiest money they can ever make. Even I can litigate the hell out of it if I get $27B, take the money and close the LLC.
More like if you are Meta and are viewed as a lucrative business opportunity by the bank.