Re:The New 30-Something
by beamatronic on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:41PM
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On top of that, here you can feel like you are working hard day in and day out, and you meet someone just like you, working just as hard, but they have $5M in stock because they worked for the right company at the right time.
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On the other hand, I knew a guy who turned down a job in the Bay Area for family reasons who eventually worked out that the stock he was offered was worth ~$300 million at the peak of the .com bubble.
He was very philosophical about it :-)
Re:The New 30-Something
by mikepurvis on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:26PM
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To be fair, though, how many people were lucky enough to get out right at the peak of the bubble?
The more likely scenario is you've invested in that relocation, paying the financial and social costs, and then suddenly it's 2001 and you have no job, no stock, and no community to fall back on. So yeah, a philosophical view is probably wise. :)
Re:The New 30-Something
by dustindiamond on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:36PM
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Mark Cuban.
Re:The New 30-Something
by Shebanator on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:53PM
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Well, my wife and I always say that when it came to tech companies, we were "lucky but not that lucky." I worked for one startup whose IPO was filed the day before the bubble burst, and after that had a job offer from pre-IPO Google that I turned down because I figured the stock would be lower than my strike price by the time I could exercise. Oops.