I imagine the percentage of people happy with the outcome of their equity grants is vanishingly small. Maybe people did well at FAANG, but outside of those 5 c

I imagine the percentage of people happy with the outcome of their equity grants is vanishingly small. Maybe people did well at FAANG, but outside of those 5 companies it seems to be full of broken dreams. There are so many games played with equity, and the tax treatment in the US sounds like a nightmare. What a mess where you need to pay a fortune to exercise options in a risky startup where any liquidity event is open to manipulation and you are operating with imperfect knowledge.