Re:My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
by blihp on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:16PM
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The title is not a meaningful gauge of a person's knowledge or experience. It wouldn't be unheard of for a VP at a company with 50 employees to have similar responsibilities as a manager at a company with 1000 employees. They could also be VP of Engineering/Customer Service/etc. which would typically not be expected to have much, if any, legal or finance knowledge.
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Re:My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
by krn on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:58AM
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> They could also be VP of Engineering/Customer Service/etc. which would typically not be expected to have much, if any, legal or finance knowledge.
That's in the article:
> Four years ago, I landed a VP of engineering job at a red hot startup, for which I was granted options for 2% of the company.
That person could have easily been a Senior Software Engineer at FAANG before becoming a VP of engineering at a startup.
How much do Level 5 engineers at Google know about liquidation preferences if they have never worked at a startup before?