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Re:Who pays when startup employees keep their equity? by conistonwater on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @02:24PM (#12038427)
Having a significant portion of your portfolio in options on one company, which also happens to be the company you work for, is overconcentrated. The usual (good) advice is that people should diversify their portfolio, and believing in your company is not a good reason to not do that. Maybe it'd help to think about it in reverse: if you had all your money in cash, would you then buy all those options in your company to get the same portfolio? (Note: perhaps you would, but it's generally considered to be a bad idea.)
Re:Who pays when startup employees keep their equity? by tibbon on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @02:29PM (#12038478)
Would perhaps the best advice there to be exercise your options at every company you work at for all that you're vested for?

If you worked for 5 companies in 10 years, then you've got 50% of your options (likely) at each of those companies. Seems a decent-ish diversity.