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A comment on Ask HN: How much did you make from your startup's IPO?.

Re:Ask HN: How much did you make from your startup's IPO? by randomacct3847 on Sunday March 31, 2019 @09:04PM (#19539585)
No IPO yet, but participated in a tender offer last year to sell a portion of my stock (no long working there). Employee 13 (jr role), value of 4 year grant (at time of offer) $1.05m at a “low” unicorn valuation (e.g a bit over $1b).
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Re:Ask HN: How much did you make from your startup's IPO? by emit_time on Sunday March 31, 2019 @10:33PM (#19539950)
How much of a hypothetical salary cut did you take to work there as opposed to other places, do you mind talking about your salary history?
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Re:Ask HN: How much did you make from your startup's IPO? by randomacct3847 on Sunday March 31, 2019 @10:43PM (#19540000)
Not sure if there’s a comparable role I can point to. This was a non-technical role and my second job out of school (started a few years ago). Salary was definitely lower than a SWE job or PM job (my current role)

Quite honestly I just got very lucky and would be surprised if it happened to me again. The company is doing better than I expected and would expect it to raise at a higher valuation soon (sold the bare minimum I had to to participate)

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Re:Ask HN: How much did you make from your startup's IPO? by quickthrower2 on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:04AM (#19541404)
Well done.
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