I’ve been through two companies with exits. One left me with nothing (it was an acquihire), and the other basically increased my salary by about 1.5x (pre-tax,

I’ve been through two companies with exits. One left me with nothing (it was an acquihire), and the other basically increased my salary by about 1.5x (pre-tax, but because long term capital gains tax is lower than income it was probably more optimistic post-tax.)