Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking home over $1m? $500k?

Re:Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking ... by xxcode on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @11:54AM (#9226355)

yes - I was part of a recent acquisition and made a little over 4M (pretax). I had 0.1% of the company. I was 24th employee (engineer). The company had 55 people at the time of acquisition. I joined about 14 months before the acquisition.

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Re:Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking ... by burgreblast on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @01:00PM (#9226911)

Trying to think of what 55 person company sold for $4B. Was thinking Whatsapp but you would have had more like $19M pretax at 1%.

edit: If vested. But after so short, only 25% vested. Congrats! Sounds like there's more upside for you!

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Re:Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking ... by bradleybuda on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @02:23PM (#9227570)

Please don't try to deanonymize people who aren't sharing their own details - individuals are being frank with personal, sensitive financial information in this thread and that's a good thing.

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Re:Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking ... by charlesnw on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @07:31PM (#9229328)

It's the internet. People can do what they want. Everyone is in the pool. Sharks and swimmers. If swimmers want to risk, sharks can bite. End of story.

I for one support the uncovering attempts. I'm attempting to do that myself on all the stories as well.

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