It's usually really hard to negotiate a longer post termination exercise window as an individual, as that will have to be written into the options plan (which r

It's usually really hard to negotiate a longer post termination exercise window as an individual, as that will have to be written into the options plan (which requires board/investor majority approval and is generally a huge legal doc written before). However a lot of strong startups these days are offering all employees with longer (e.g. >2 years) experience the opportunity to exercise for 3+ years and sometimes significantly longer. https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows is a good resource!