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Re:Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services expor... by x0x0 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @07:54PM (#20671308)
That is not my experience, nor the experience of most startups in sfbay.

For instance: only a fool would think that a $500k equity package, based on eg a 409a evaluation, is anything like a $500k equity grant at a FAANG. Because the latter is cash and the former is lottery tickets.

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Re:Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services expor... by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:49PM (#20671812)
A dollar valuation is bollocks, yes - but a percentage stake of a company valued at 5-10m of (I.e. small-fry) when it gets sold-out to Cisco / Apple / Facebook is not.
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Re:Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services expor... by justapassenger on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:53AM (#20672526)
Percentage stake is also a bollock. Liquidation preference makes selling out good business for VCs. Sometimes founders if they're smart. And engineers are lucky to get anything at all.

I highly recommend anyone working in startup world to learn more about how it works in details, and understand how their companies deal with it.

You can own 1% of company that's sold for $100M and get $0. And it's all perfectly legal.

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