Personally, both from experience long ago, and from what I gather is the case today with exits being difficult and good ones very rare, I'd make the stock optio

Personally, both from experience long ago, and from what I gather is the case today with exits being difficult and good ones very rare, I'd make the stock options a "Equity" check box, and include a text box with a politely worded version of "If you wish, please tell me why the discounted value of the equity is not essentially zero or negative...." The negative is because they can be a motivation to fire an employee just before they become worth something, e.g. in the most infamous case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist)#Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...