I'm amazed this is the top HN comment. Do people believe that the majority of the thousands of "early" MS or G employees were critical?pic.twitter.com/3h0dxbdePl
Why don't startups pay people in pure cash instead of illiquid options+cash? http://danluu.com/startup-options/ …
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Microsoft minted O(1k) millionaires in 1992. And then the stock went up by 20x.http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/28/business/microsoft-s-unlikely-millionaires.html?pagewanted=all …
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Whenever someone tells me I don't need to sweat the details on options because the company is trustworthy, I think of this story about Etsy (well-known to be a trustworthy and employee-friendly company at the time) blocking an early employee from selling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705646 …pic.twitter.com/AiP2kVpWOk
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This tweet brought to you by: a friend of mine having their offer rescinded because they asked too many questions about the options, which apparently indicated a lack of trust in the company
But if companies were trustworthy, they wouldn't hide all of this information from youShow this thread
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Here's a rebuttal article, but I think his assumptions (opportunity costs, etc) are wrong. https://www.benkuhn.net/optopt
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I think it's interesting, but the opportunity cost example is for a below market Google new grad offer where the new grad never gets a raise
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As a ten year VC - there are numerous insights Dan makes in this article.
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Here’s someone claiming to have data that 5% of employee grants wind up being exercisedhttps://medium.com/eshares-blog/broken-cap-tables-bbf84574a76a …
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