While this would be great, I'd personally like to see the tax code change - being taxed on the "value" of something you can't realize, and my NEVER realize, is

While this would be great, I'd personally like to see the tax code change - being taxed on the "value" of something you can't realize, and my NEVER realize, is crazy. Most of the time I've been at a startup as a founder/early employee, the strike price was low enough that I'd be willing to take a roll of the dice and just exercise, if I was going to leave. It's usually 10's of thousands of dollars. By the time I started vesting a fair amount, the TAX on that was non-trivial - 100's of thousands if not more. Something I personally can't really do.