TLDR Options mentions (9)

• Ask HN: Percent of employees that benefit financially from equity offers?

  From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141796 ("~65% of companies will never exit", "~15% of companies will have low exits", "~20% of companies will make you money"). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• first startup job offer: how to value stock options?

  To put a # on it, take your (preferred price - strike price) * # options. This is the paper $ value today assuming you fully vest. You can project what this could be based on how valuation grows. This is a tool for that. But only thing you can control today is making sure you have 1. a salary that you can live on + exercise your options; 2. Enough equity to be worth your time. Source: about 4 years ago

• How does actual process work? You join a StartUp pre IPO = rich?

  Use something like tldroptions.io to forecast. Source: over 4 years ago

• Leaving IT after only 7 months at my job

  Stock Options – Inversely if you work for a startup, you might get stock options. These are a LONG shot gambling game (like 2% pay off), but I know some guys who their stock is trading in the 30’s and their options were in the $2 range so assuming they make it to lockout I expect to get a call to hang out on their yacht. Personally, there are so many options to screw the employee like clawbacks/ratchet clauses I... Source: over 4 years ago

• Ask HN: Should an experienced engineer join a startup?

  I don't really get why you'd be asking this question. Especially if you're making that much money a year. Do the math. https://tldroptions.io/ In just about every case, you're rolling dice for what? A faster paced environment and sleepless nights? I get it, the hedonic treadmill is real. Happiness isn't bought with money, but couldn't you just save enough money to semi-retire and do something different at that point? - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

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