Re:My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
by acdha on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:17PM
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I’d have an easier time agreeing with your last point if I didn’t remember thinking the same thing around 2001. Part of why this model works so well for the owners is that there’s always a fresh crop of young people who love the heavily-marketed dream and are willing to devote most of their life to making someone else rich, never realizing how badly outclassed they are by the money guys.
As employees get more educated around stock options I’m certain their risk profile will change and founders will find it harder to rally a tribe around airy promises of a future exit.