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Re:Golden Handcuffs by HWR_14 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:34PM (#27147772)
Dumb question time: What's "IC". As you can imagine, the term is kind of overloaded in internet searches.

Also, does anyone know of a good primer on equity founders/early employees/later employees should expect/require so they don't get totally taken advantage of? It turns out experience is an expensive teacher.

Re:Golden Handcuffs by deusex_ on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:36PM (#27147789)
Individual Contributor, as opposed to Manager
Re:Golden Handcuffs by mattpratt on Thursday May 13, 2021 @09:39PM (#27149664)
The Holloway Guide has some goodies --

https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation

It's complicated and there's a lot of gotchas I wish I had known. You can read up but if you are considering any of these I would find someone who has navigated the space (and has likely been burned).

Re:Golden Handcuffs by standardUser on Thursday May 13, 2021 @10:44PM (#27150101)
It's never dumb to call out the confusing usage of acronyms, especially not here where the problem is endemic.