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Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by marcinzm on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:23AM (#24199775)
That depends totally on the RSU package they got when they joined. Negative growth if the package was 50% higher than their previous or FAANG comp is still a net gain.
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Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by trimbo on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:11PM (#24200462)
If it was 50% higher when they were hired, they still probably made less. All FAANG stocks climbed 100+% over the same timeframe. Amazon, 500%.

[Edit] But... I think you might have missed the point. The reason to join a pre-IPO company is to make far more money post-IPO when the stock rises. Joining Facebook in 2008 or Google in 2000 would be equivalents here, and those people became very, very wealthy on the day of the IPO due to this pop vs when they joined. Uber employees who joined 4 years before IPO had their stock drop instead.

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Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by pb7 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:40AM (#24200002)
This is true and was the case for some people but if you had taken an Uber offer, for example, to Facebook or Google, they would have matched it.
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