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Re:How This Ends by thechao on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:30PM (#31471250)
Right; so my plan of having 60% of my wealth tied up in unvested stocks in a single company is really coming to fruition!
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Re:How This Ends by robotresearcher on Sunday May 22, 2022 @11:49PM (#31475165)
Unvested stocks are not your wealth. Try not to think of them that way. You own them the same way you own next year's paychecks, i.e. not at all.
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Re:How This Ends by snikeris on Sunday May 22, 2022 @05:09PM (#31472816)
There are ways to mitigate this risk. Talk to a professional.
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Re:How This Ends by 314 on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:35AM (#31475634)
As long as you heed standard advice (treat stock as nice to have but value it at zero during wage negotiations) then the impact on your net worth should be minimal :)
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Re:How This Ends by FollowingTheDao on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:00PM (#31471549)
Oh man, so sorry.
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Re:How This Ends by quickthrower2 on Sunday May 22, 2022 @11:44PM (#31475145)
Not really, if they go to zero, then he/she will be in the same situation as most (99.9%) of employees who get no stock.
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Re:How This Ends by thechao on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:25PM (#31486555)
We call it the lottery — the last ~5 years we "won"; this year? Maybe not so much.
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Re:How This Ends by quickthrower2 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:28AM (#31489083)
“We” meaning a subset of “not me”
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