Ask HN: My company is being acquired. How can I maximize my upside as an IC?
The startup I work at is getting acquired. Unfortunately management won't (can't?) share anything but vague details. My main concern given the timing is that the valuation will be low and what's left of my equity will be eaten up by investor liquidation preference. Not sure there's much that can be done at this point, but I'm interested to get people's advice, both for what I can do now and for...