Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Re:Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad by matthewowen on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @04:23PM (#19628433)

2+ hours per day commuting? BART from Berkeley to Powell St station is 30 minutes. You have last mile for sure, but this totally works for most SF based startup jobs.

But either way... doesn't this prove my point? This does not sound like a difficult way to live, _and_ it factors in luxuries (I for one definitely do not spend $10k/year on car ownership).

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Re:Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad by defen on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @04:51PM (#19628668)

> 2+ hours per day commuting? BART from Berkeley to Powell St station is 30 minutes.

1 hour on/waiting for BART + ~40 minutes walking between your house and BART + ~20 minutes walking between BART and your job gets pretty close to 2 hours.

Car cost is indeed high, but if you have a kid you'll probably need one and then you have to factor in the cost of childcare... $2k/month?

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Re:Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad by matthewowen on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @04:55PM (#19628703)

I generously based this on one income. If we need childcare then we presumably have a second income?

I realize that single parent households do exist, but we're not covering every case here.

You don't need to spend $10k/year to have a car. This is pretty trivially provable because there are lots of people who own cars who clearly wouldn't be able to do so if that were the case.

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Re:Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad by walshemj on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:26PM (#19629363)

Buy a Brompton folding bike - not sure if the US has the same tax advantages that the UK has.

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Re:Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad by Taniwha on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:12PM (#19628824)

rent a bike locker at the station, bike to BART - 10 minutes

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