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Re:Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting by loeg on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:38PM (#15689999)
> would make startups completely unable to compete with incumbents.

They already are mostly unable to compete with larger companies on total compensation. Startup equity is worthless unless you win the lottery.

https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

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Re:Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting by thanatropism on Monday November 13, 2017 @07:04PM (#15691421)
The Joel on Software post cited on your link is just too good.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/05/01/architecture-astro...

> Jeez, we’ve had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for ice cream. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I’m sorry. It seems like it should be. But it’s not.

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