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I don't know if you will see anyone openly stating how much they walked away with, but you can do some basic math to figure out that this is very plausible. Ta
by joncalhoun 12y ago
I don't know if you will see anyone openly stating how much they walked away with, but you can do some basic math to figure out that this is very plausible.
Take Stripe, valued at $3.5b[1]. $1m / $3.5 b ~= 0.029%, so any employee who vested at least 0.029% (after dilution) is a paper millionaire, and chances are their early employees have more than 0.029% equity vested.
[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-02/apple-pay-partner-stripe-valued-at-3-5-billion-in-new-funding http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-02/apple-pay-...