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Careful reading too much into that. There's a difference between, "We will give you $100 or 500 RSUs" and "The street value of a RSU today is $0.20". How many t
by basseq 9y ago
Careful reading too much into that. There's a difference between, "We will give you $100 or 500 RSUs" and "The street value of a RSU today is $0.20". How many times have we seen startups say, "We can't pay you a $100k salary, but we can pay you $50k and XYZ stock options, which is just as good because the company is going to explode!" That does not mean that XYZ stock options are worth $50k at grant.
- s73ver 9y agoHow many times have we seen a company get acquired for a kingly sum, and right before the acquisition, the company plays tricks with the stock so the employees get jack shit?
- basseq 9y agoOnce would be too many, but I suspect most of the "tricks" (liquidation preferences, "secret" cap tables, etc.) are in play well before an acquisition. The acquisition is just laying your cards on the table.