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Re:Ask HN: Which startup offer would you take? by segmondy on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:42AM (#18066680)
How did PagerDuty screw you? By firing you?
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Re:Ask HN: Which startup offer would you take? by bb88 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:15PM (#18071012)
Yeah. Probably because he had 2% of the options, and they wanted to claw it back from him.
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Re:Ask HN: Which startup offer would you take? by kbyatnal on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:46PM (#18072040)
I don’t think firing gets rid of vested options, right?
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Re:Ask HN: Which startup offer would you take? by bb88 on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:10PM (#18095014)
Right, but OP said he was fired before he had options vested.

So he took 2% options at a 50% pay cut, but then got fired and that screwed him out of the 2% options before he could vest.

Welcome to the valley.

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Re:Ask HN: Which startup offer would you take? by expathacker on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:36AM (#18073956)
Ugh, I shouldn't post while 1/2 awake on 12 hour flights. PagerDuty fired me before I was vested. I was 1/2 evangelist, and 1/2 "DevOps" but took the 50% pay cut so that I could focus more on evangelism, I don't really like tech work anymore, I don't feel like my contribution is significant enough just being a grunt. During AWS Re:invent I signed us some major customers, but we had a bad outage, so they fired me for the AWS outage. Really. I think it was an excuse, and pg, or some other YC advisor told them to fire me and take back the stock options. After I pointed out how jacked up this was, they offered to bring me back as a contract evangelist, but I hold grudges.
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