american158931

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   by american158931 10y ago

   What's your opinion on how an employee should deal with a founder who clearly believes more in the A16Z stance on stock options more than the Adam's? Apart from obvious knee-jerk reactions like "stop working there." Obvi
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   by american158931 11y ago

   Feels like an insane amount of dilution for early employees.
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   by american158931 11y ago

   I guess what I'm getting at is something like this: If you're given 1% of the company in the form of stock options as an employee, how can one get a grip on what that's worth should a company IPO? Like, if I came in as a high
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   by american158931 11y ago

   I'm seeing reports that Khosla led a Series A round of $10 million at $0.22/share ( http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/09/square-ipo-will-net-big-win-f... ). At a $40M valuation. $40M/$0.22 = ~182 milli
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   by american158931 11y ago

   Can someone help me understand... Let's say an employee was granted 10,000 stock options at $1/share. They're all vested. Does this mean that each share will be worth $9? So if exercised and cashed out, the employee would ess