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Re:Golden Handcuffs by alecbz on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:03AM (#27150891)
Stripe's last round was at like $100B. There's some growth being missed out on, sure, but I'm not sure for how many people that's gonna net out to be millions.
Re:Golden Handcuffs by bradlys on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:50AM (#27151499)
It could be a lot. 100B makes a lot of millionaires.

Even at 10B, lots of millionaires are created unless all hires were made at high valuation. I was getting 1m/yr at 5B and I wasn’t even that early of an employee or high up. Expand that same company to 100B? Everyone would be getting millions out of it - even the lowest ranking employees.

Re:Golden Handcuffs by alecbz on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:31AM (#27154087)
? My point is that $100B is very high and Stripe's unlikely to see insane future growth. For the people who joined at $10B, yes, 10x their equity could be millions for them. But I think it's a lot less likely that Stripe will make it to $1T soon, so people joining now are unlikely to 10x.