Well really at the end of the day all that matters is whether this statement (from the video) is true: > Even if you joined Facebook as employee #1000, so you

Well really at the end of the day all that matters is whether this statement (from the video) is true: > Even if you joined Facebook as employee #1000, so you joined it in like 2009, you still made 20 million dollars. I find it hard to believe that it is true, but obviously both you and the speaker know much more about it than I do. However I've also seem people commonly overstate things like this. Some basic math: $200 billion current value / ($15 billion value in 2009 * 50% discount factor from preferred to common) = 26.6x So already assuming the most optimistic things [1], to get to $20 million dollars today, you'd have needed to get the equivalent of $750k worth of RSUs in 2009. Even vesting over 4 years that seems like an extremely high amount, high by a factor of about 5-10x of what I'd guess. And don't get me wrong, I have no doubt people who joined Facebook in 2009 earned quite a bit of money assuming they held onto the stock. But 20 million dollars is a big number. --- [1]: The employee joined in 2009, you still work there, you haven't sold most of your stock (which is impossible because you had to sell some in the IPO to pay your taxes, but whatever)