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You don't really value them at $0. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a binding contract saying you'll transfer them to me for $100 paid now. Hey, that's $10

You don't really value them at $0. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a binding contract saying you'll transfer them to me for $100 paid now. Hey, that's $100 for free! Only it shows you don't really value them at zero. It's only a slightly smaller lie than founders who insist their startup is worth hundreds of millions. The truth is somewhere betweem the two...

comstock 9y ago
In many (most?) cases shares are not transferable in this way. If they are, there is often some kind of private market and the shares have an actual real value. This makes it much more sensible to value them near zero.
- naveen99 9y ago
  Could you sell a forward contract?
danmaz74 9y ago
A lottery ticket still has a value, so, they're not valuing them at $0. But they are planning for the case where the value goes to 0, which is a very sane thing to do.
daurnimator 9y ago
They're rarely transferable.
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jerf 9y ago
"I value them at zero" is shorthand for "I am not planning my life around them having any value, such as buying a house with a mortgage so large that the only way I can pay it is for those stock options to be worth something significant." Yeah, technically that's not what it means exactly, but when you're making your life plans as if them cashing out at $0 is the most likely outcome, it's not entirely wrong either.
- Waterluvian 9y ago
  Exactly. In my head I like having the free lottery ticket more than having $100. But in my ledger they are not present as an asset.

comstock 9y ago

In many (most?) cases shares are not transferable in this way. If they are, there is often some kind of private market and the shares have an actual real value. This makes it much more sensible to value them near zero.

naveen99 9y ago
Could you sell a forward contract?

danmaz74 9y ago

A lottery ticket still has a value, so, they're not valuing them at $0. But they are planning for the case where the value goes to 0, which is a very sane thing to do.

daurnimator 9y ago

They're rarely transferable.

jeneth 9y ago
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jerf 9y ago

"I value them at zero" is shorthand for "I am not planning my life around them having any value, such as buying a house with a mortgage so large that the only way I can pay it is for those stock options to be worth something significant." Yeah, technically that's not what it means exactly, but when you're making your life plans as if them cashing out at $0 is the most likely outcome, it's not entirely wrong either.

Waterluvian 9y ago
Exactly. In my head I like having the free lottery ticket more than having $100. But in my ledger they are not present as an asset.