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I understand the intent of the legislation perfectly. How often do you think gains are ever realized by startup employees given stock options?
by ones_and_zeros 10y ago
I understand the intent of the legislation perfectly.
How often do you think gains are ever realized by startup employees given stock options?
- breerly 10y agoNot often. But making it costlier to participate only makes the proposition riskier or fiscally unfeisable. That hurts employees. Startups are useful in that they trade off innovation for risk - a handful of startups make huge impacts and grow into successful companies. People know that when they sign up to work for a startup - finding out they can't realize the upside potential is the surprise.
- ones_and_zeros 10y agoSo do you think this could lead to more people like Bob ponying up $50k to exercise the options considering that he is unlikely to realize a gain?
- Eridrus 10y agoGiven most employees at "startups" are actually later employees when the companies are larger and less likely to fail, it may actually be that most of them get some sort of payday, even if it's not huge.