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Re:Startups Rejecting Venture Capital by icedchai on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:31PM (#18887289)
Paper? You don't even get paper stock certificates these days. It's all electronic.

At a previous company, I exercised my stock options when I left. This cost me about $4K. Two years later, I got $12K back... not a bad return, but certainly not the "potential for early retirement" I was told when I joined.

Re:Startups Rejecting Venture Capital by rhizome on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:05PM (#18888071)
Recently I was going through my father's papers and found a stock certificate for IBM, I think from the 60s or 70s. I think I'm going to frame it.
Re:Startups Rejecting Venture Capital by dawhizkid on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:21PM (#18887759)
it's just a colloquialism...
Re:Startups Rejecting Venture Capital by icedchai on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:06PM (#18888075)
Sorry, I forgot the /s! Still, you used to actually get real paper stock when you exercised.