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Agreed. Takes maybe a few hours to understand the terms. BUT, most technical folks are very uninformed about investing and finance in general. Many brilliant e

Agreed. Takes maybe a few hours to understand the terms. BUT, most technical folks are very uninformed about investing and finance in general. Many brilliant engineers at my previous employers were utterly confused about their options as well as their decision making after IPO. So I think the difficulty also stems from a lack of development in financial acumen generally.

dkhenry 10y ago
+1 for development of financial acumen. We can often point to people taking out 18% APY car loans, or going to Payday loan vendors and say how silly they are for not understanding finance, but we turn a blind eye when its the finance that effects us ( even though one could argue that compounding interest on a payday loan is probably more complex then your basic stock option grant )