Including percentages for startup stock grants is tricky. You have things like common/preferred stock, liquidation preferences, subsequent rounds causing diluti

Including percentages for startup stock grants is tricky. You have things like common/preferred stock, liquidation preferences, subsequent rounds causing dilution, etc. that the average employee doesn't usually understand. At best it's very confusing and at worst you have actual legal liability issues. And I would never want my employees to value their stock based on our 409a price, we (like all startups) do all we can to keep that number as low as possible!