Early exercise only works with non-qualified options. They work by granting non-qualified options that you exercise immediately, but then have a claw-back prov

Early exercise only works with non-qualified options. They work by granting non-qualified options that you exercise immediately, but then have a claw-back provision that mirrors the vesting schedule of qualified options. Nothing here prevents that arrangement, but it might become less needed since the repeal of AMT removes much of the incentive to early exercise.