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>Until this year, Uber gave former employees 30 days to exercise their options, an unusually short window of time. Is this the standard time window for exercis
by bob_theslob646 9y ago
>Until this year, Uber gave former employees 30 days to exercise their options, an unusually short window of time.
Is this the standard time window for exercise?
- dpeck 9y ago90 is more common, but in terms of being able to sell their Uber stock that difference doesn't matter much.
- infynyxx2 9y agoNo. Standard time window is 90 days. Even that can be pretty short if you have to buy those options for companies with higher valuation.
- bsimpson 9y agoAs far as I know, Pinterest was the first company to give a sane amount of time to exercise options: https://medium.com/@michaeldeangelo/unlocking-the-golden-handcuffs-6ac855a371f9 https://medium.com/@michaeldeangelo/unlocking-the-golden-han... They give you 7 years to buy, so you don't get stuck with a huge tax bill between exercising the options and being able to sell shares.
- rsynnott 9y agoHuh. Not in the US, but I get 7 years, which is pretty normal around here.
- NonEUCitizen 9y agoWhere are you?
- rsynnott 9y agoIreland. Every options scheme I'm aware of allows years after options mature to exercise them. Quite surprised that it isn't the same in the US; I don't know why anyone would take the risk of exercising options in a private company while it's private.