Re:We need to rethink employee compensation
by learnstats2 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:07PM
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That liquidity is important at the point of compensation - if you hold cash, you can invest it in what you choose.
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You cannot always invest in what you choose. Generally, illiquid assets are both difficult to sell and difficult to buy. In particular, investing in pre-IPO startups may be hard unless the startup chooses to do crowd-founding, you know the founders or are a venture capitalist.