> but after a decade of personally being screwed over and watching friends similarly get screwed over, I promise you the dream of making bank in a few years on

> but after a decade of personally being screwed over and watching friends similarly get screwed over, I promise you the dream of making bank in a few years on stock options generally doesn't play out. The funny thing is that I guess I'm relatively new in the industry, and the story that left me the biggest impression is how a friend should be able to retire in a couple of years since he joined Snowflake a couple of years ago... Seems that he really really lucked out in this case indeed, since most experienced commentators in this thread unequivocally point out how luck-based this thing is.