in the hope that one of them takes off so I don't think the idea that one can quit is missing from the discussion.
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IMO, the things that are most opaque about options are the rates of events that screw over employees. VCs have enough data to know this, but
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I don't think that anyone else does. That's the thing I'd really like to see an analysis of!
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Their models say the opportunity cost needing to be -100k to take a bigco job
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I see a gap of at least that much, and I'm paying the remote worker tax. I've also heard of larger gaps from other sources.
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That article was interesting not for it's numbers (which I agree are wrong), but because of its analysis.
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I think people still calibrate programmer earnings based on 2010-type numbers, and still don't believe bigcos pay 2-5x that.
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Also, I totally agree with you about the knowledge gap between employees and VCs about valuation and options classes.
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The article conveniently hand-waves that away, which is a non-trivial dismissal.
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Something else I'm curious about is how much 7 or 10 year exercise windows change attrition (compared to 90 day).
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Ben implies that startup attrit is because people rationally walk away from options they can keep, but in fact most people lose options...
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...when they walk and they still do it. Most unicorns, even ones not having their valuations marked down, have (IMO) high attrit
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