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Re:Golden Handcuffs by jm20 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:49PM (#27148947)
Including percentages for startup stock grants is tricky. You have things like common/preferred stock, liquidation preferences, subsequent rounds causing dilution, etc. that the average employee doesn't usually understand. At best it's very confusing and at worst you have actual legal liability issues.

And I would never want my employees to value their stock based on our 409a price, we (like all startups) do all we can to keep that number as low as possible!

Re:Golden Handcuffs by rhizome on Thursday May 13, 2021 @10:40PM (#27150079)
How do you want your employees to value their stock, then?