Yeah, I left a startup last year and exercised my options on the way out. The check I had to write for the strike prices was a lot bigger than the AMT hit. (W

Yeah, I left a startup last year and exercised my options on the way out. The check I had to write for the strike prices was a lot bigger than the AMT hit. (Which is not to say that that's always the case, but it definitely was for me.)