As someone said, it's a lottery ticket. But to fair you have much better odds than with a normal lottery ticket. You should educate yourself about how they wor

As someone said, it's a lottery ticket. But to fair you have much better odds than with a normal lottery ticket. You should educate yourself about how they work, though, e.g. in the US if you're not careful you can end up paying massive amount of taxes due to AMT if you exercise the options but don't sell resulting stock.