I made a googledocs spreadsheet that modeled various equity payouts after doing a bunch of research to evaluate a job offer from a fresh Series A startup: https

I made a googledocs spreadsheet that modeled various equity payouts after doing a bunch of research to evaluate a job offer from a fresh Series A startup: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L-hwCRXKDwmOPqXCwQo4DM1cERYSgBIHM6Sp_Mye1Gc/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L-hwCRXKDwmOPqXCwQo4... You put in your shares as a percentage, the cost to exercise, and the opportunity costs of taking the job for 4 years (or whatever the vesting period is.) It spits out a grid of the various payouts for various exit prices and funding round dilutions. Feel free to clone and play with the numbers or hack on it for your own needs. Ultimately I ended up passing on the offer because they were pretty stingy on the equity, and wouldn't budge. The amount they offered would've had to be an exit well above 100M to be a "good deal" versus what I was giving up, even without considering the risk of it failing completely.