As 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-h

As 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.