So for everyone that's interested, the owners of Crossfit, Greg Glassman and his Wife Lauren are getting divorced. Both own 50% of the company. Greg is the brains and business behind the whole thing (problems and all) and his wife more or less was along for the ride. She made a deal with a company called Anthos to sell for 20 mil after the divorce, here is what was put out by CF's accountant.
Here is a detailed chronology of the offers CrossFit made to Lauren Jenai Glassman for her stake in CrossFit Inc from our accountant, Ken Smith.
"-December 13th meeting: Proposal was given to Lauren for $1.5M for 15 years My understanding was they would get back to Harvey in three weeks.
-March, 2012
We all met in Harveys office and from there a letter was sent requesting a response to our offer made in December by April 16th.
-April 16:
We received a counter proposal with three options. I had numerous discussions with Lauren and that we were leaning toward option one: $17.5MM over 5 Years Tax Free. Lauren seemed very ple ased as this met with her objective to have a shorter payment schedule. THERE WAS NEVER A PROPOSAL THAT SHE DESIRED ALL CASH UP FRONT!
-June 4th:
We countered with on Option one to ladder the payments each year as follows: $1.5M. $2.5M, $3.5M, $4.5M AND $5.5M for a total of $17.5M.
-June 18th:
We received a rejection of that offer from Grace Park and also that the original three proposals were being withdrawn.
-I later met with Lauren and asked why they didn't submit total cash payment upfront...her comment was we didn't think you would be able to come up with the cash. So will you take cash from us and she said no I can't due to the definitive agreement she signed with Anthos."
Note that all of our payments to Lauren would have been TAX FREE. She has agreed to a lump-sum offer of 20 million from Anthos Capital. This amount is subject to a 40% capital gains tax and will look a lot more like 12 million after the fact. CrossFit would have willingly met or exceeded this 20 million dollar price but Lauren never asked for a counter-offer.
If Bryan Kelly and Lauren want us to believe Lauren's agreement to sell her stake is just about the money, they are going to need to produce another PR video.
So my comment on a friends thread who works for Crossfit was "Color me surprised that a woman is screwing this whole thing up and making bad business decisions"
Let the white knight and feminist comments ensue. The good news is my comment was "liked" by a lot of people including a few women.
Here is a detailed chronology of the offers CrossFit made to Lauren Jenai Glassman for her stake in CrossFit Inc from our accountant, Ken Smith.
"-December 13th meeting: Proposal was given to Lauren for $1.5M for 15 years My understanding was they would get back to Harvey in three weeks.
-March, 2012
We all met in Harveys office and from there a letter was sent requesting a response to our offer made in December by April 16th.
-April 16:
We received a counter proposal with three options. I had numerous discussions with Lauren and that we were leaning toward option one: $17.5MM over 5 Years Tax Free. Lauren seemed very ple ased as this met with her objective to have a shorter payment schedule. THERE WAS NEVER A PROPOSAL THAT SHE DESIRED ALL CASH UP FRONT!
-June 4th:
We countered with on Option one to ladder the payments each year as follows: $1.5M. $2.5M, $3.5M, $4.5M AND $5.5M for a total of $17.5M.
-June 18th:
We received a rejection of that offer from Grace Park and also that the original three proposals were being withdrawn.
-I later met with Lauren and asked why they didn't submit total cash payment upfront...her comment was we didn't think you would be able to come up with the cash. So will you take cash from us and she said no I can't due to the definitive agreement she signed with Anthos."
Note that all of our payments to Lauren would have been TAX FREE. She has agreed to a lump-sum offer of 20 million from Anthos Capital. This amount is subject to a 40% capital gains tax and will look a lot more like 12 million after the fact. CrossFit would have willingly met or exceeded this 20 million dollar price but Lauren never asked for a counter-offer.
If Bryan Kelly and Lauren want us to believe Lauren's agreement to sell her stake is just about the money, they are going to need to produce another PR video.
So my comment on a friends thread who works for Crossfit was "Color me surprised that a woman is screwing this whole thing up and making bad business decisions"
Let the white knight and feminist comments ensue. The good news is my comment was "liked" by a lot of people including a few women.