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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by econner on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:02PM (#13429776)
What makes you so sure? Say the company is valued at $300M when you join. $100,000 worth of ISOs is 0.03% which is not unreasonable if you're an engineer from say employee 5 to employee 50 or so. Now, the company becomes a unicorn valued at $3B which is 10x.
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by jonathankoren on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:03AM (#13433447)
I'm not saying that the basis points are unreasonable. I'm saying that my salary is more than $100,000.
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