Re:Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe
by x0x0 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:43PM
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A data point: we allowed this for all our employees (83b for everyone!) and no one took us up on it. It was frustrating because as a founder, I viewed it as a benefit, but employees didn't. At all.
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Re:Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe
by cco on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:02AM
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My guess is very few people knew that AMT was a thing and/or didn't have enough liquid cash to buy at the time. Had I know that in a few years I'd have a tax bill in the tens of thousands of dollars I'd have taken a loan out immediately to early exercise all my options and been much better off.