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I paid $300K to quit a startup
- PragmaticPulp 5y agoThe TL;DR is that he had to pay to exercise options and then also pay the tax bill. A common problem with startup options. The author’s suggestions are great if you can convince the company to write special grants for you that differ from others, but good luck getting some of those requests through if you’re not a very valuable employee. If the company has a 90 day exercise window, they’re probably not interested in granting a single person a unique 10-year exercise window.