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Re:Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity by scruple on Thursday June 13, 2024 @02:59AM (#40666779)
How does that work?
Re:Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity by vonmoltke on Thursday June 13, 2024 @12:27PM (#40671656)
Most (all?) public tech companies have policies that prohibit employees from trading the company's stock outside designated windows following a quarterly earnings release.
Re:Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity by erik_seaberg on Thursday June 13, 2024 @12:35PM (#40671748)
Earnings reports happen once a quarter between the company and the public. A couple of business days after that, employees (without material nonpublic info) may trade company shares for the next month or so. Maybe you can't sell April shares until mid-July, and then you have to decide whether to wait until next July to minimize tax on gain.

Sometimes you can elect to sell every released share in a quarter, or file a 10b5-1 plan with a schedule, but you have to do that during a trading window.