Early selling for employees is exceedingly rare and also often on bad terms, this was mentioned in the OP article. Again, it’s lucky that you were able to, but

Early selling for employees is exceedingly rare and also often on bad terms, this was mentioned in the OP article. Again, it’s lucky that you were able to, but is such a wildly unlikely outcome that functionally everyone else has to ignore that aspect of your story. To boot, being able to sell in a secondary market transaction only after about 3 years is even more ridiculously rare (to the point that it makes me question if your whole story is even true, or just some trolling). The few companies I’ve heard of allowing that type of thing (late pre-IPO Spotify, Squarespace), only allowed it after early employees like yourself would have waited 7-10 years before getting any payout. > “Not sure what your point is about $3MM over 10 years.” Please re-read my comment to help understand. > “You've assumed I was a senior engineering hire. I was in a junior non-technical role a year out of college.” Where did I make an assumption about junior vs senior level? As for your claim you were given this grant for a non-technical role 1 year out of college, I think it’s more likely you’re just lying to troll this comment thread. Just in a Bayesian sense, the conditional probability that you’re lying is higher than that this is a true story. It’s not impossible that this could have happened for a non-tech hire with no experience, but that mere possibility also is irrelevant compared with the far greater probability that this is just made up.