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This is Josh, of the authors of the Guide. First, thanks to everyone for the comments and feedback. Also, please remember this is a GitHub project for a reason
by zalzal 11y ago
This is Josh, of the authors of the Guide. First, thanks to everyone for the comments and feedback.
Also, please remember this is a GitHub project for a reason! This guide has a lot of shortcomings as it's very new, but our goal for this is to be a "living" guide, not yet another read-and-comment blog post. After commenting here, please consider filing an issue or PR with questions or suggested improvements. A community as talented as this one knows vastly more collectively than any individual authors. We can then discuss and work to get suggestions incorporated.
- nobodyyouknow 11y agoThanks for putting this together! This is a most helpful guide. Up until now I've never understood why RSUs are less favorable for taxation.
- crabasa 11y ago> Also, please remember this is a GitHub project for a reason! Totally understand. I've upvoted your comment, hope everyone else does as well so that people can see this first before expending energy on a comment that should have simply been a PR (or at least a filed issue).
- zalzal 11y agoThank you! Love HN discussions but also want to see corrections and comments work their way back to the original doc.
- mrmcd 11y agoI've posted this in a previous thread about equity options, but I made this Google Docs spreadsheet that helps model the potential payout of various stock options: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L-hwCRXKDwmOPqXCwQo4DM1cERYSgBIHM6Sp_Mye1Gc/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L-hwCRXKDwmOPqXCwQo4... You put in your equity percent and how the "costs" associated with it-- both exercise costs, and the "opportunity" costs such as smaller salary over X years, or unvested shares at current company--- and it spits out a grid of how much your options would be worth in various combinations of dilution and exit values. I think it'd be a good addition to a guide like this but I'm not really sure how to best integrate something like this in a .md document or another page that will run inside github. Right now someone has to make a copy to their own Google account and mess with the inputs to use it, which is a bit cumbersome. edit: went ahead and made a issue in GH for more detailed discussion rather than doing it here: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation/issues/27 https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation/issues/27
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoJosh, thanks for doing this.