Vantaggi
Company is hitting all the buzzwords to try and raise a nice valuation. General Catalyst needs this thing to come through in some fashion (you can do search for the business insider article about commure). So the odds of a sale or IPO is excellent. This means that the RSU/ISO will have some sort of payout. How much makes it from the preferred stock holders to the common stock is the big question.
Svantaggi
The executive team and there various nepotism hires will lie about anything to anyone. (The CEO, CTO, COO and CBO (chief business officer, cause all the buddies need a "chief")) all have direct siblings/wives on the payroll. Offer letters are going out with a fantasy stock price "Just say yes" is a direct order from the CEO to any customer request, query or concern. Does the request even make sense? Doesn't matter, just say yes and work overtime to stand up the house of cards to resolve the issue long enough to convince the customer There is no organization. Everyone just does whatever they want, as they think best. It's a 1,000 person company that functions like a 10 person. This leads to the most obvious tragedy of the commons possible with regards to resources. The company keeps doing M and A activity, but it isn't real. It's just other general catalyst portfolio companies. This to show a single company with the revenue of many