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Exercising options isn't "investing in the company" if you immediately sell the shares acquired by exercising, assuming that is possible. In fact, it is worse f
by oh_sigh 5y ago
Exercising options isn't "investing in the company" if you immediately sell the shares acquired by exercising, assuming that is possible. In fact, it is worse for the company if you do that, so OP should do it(and make a bunch of money for themselves).
If Gitlab IPOs at $66/share, that means the author will get almost $1M from selling their shares they acquired for $0.27.
- compiler-guy 5y agoIt wasn't possible for him four years ago.
- ansible 5y agoThe article is from 2017, so the author didn't have the option to immediately liquidate the shares. Gitlab didn't appear to be close to a buyout or IPO at that point from what the author knew.